Salvador Dali – Phoebus ce dieu couronné de lauriers, c. 1979 (Hand signed)

By DALI Salvador (1904-1989)

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)
Phoebus ce dieu couronné de lauriers (Phoebus, the god crowned with laurels — Apollo) — from L’Art d’aimer d’Ovide, c. 1979
Colour woodcut (bois gravé) on vélin d’Arches
Hand-signed in pencil “Dalí” lower right; numbered 118/144 in pencil lower left; signed in the plate
Dimensions — Image (block): 28 × 18.5 cm (11 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 56 × 38 cm (22 × 15 in.); shown through the passe-partout window (sight): 41 × 28 cm (16 1/8 × 11 in.); passe-partout: 63 × 52 cm (24 3/4 × 20 1/2 in.)
Condition: In very good overall condition; presented on a passe-partout; not framed
References: Michler & Löpsinger 1527; Field 79-2 N
From the illustrated book L’Art d’aimer d’Ovide (Ovid’s Art of Love), Éditions du Centre Culturel de Paris, copy 118/144 on grand vélin d’Arches; printed by Matthieu / Gourdon
Phoebus — Apollo, god of the sun, poetry and the arts, crowned with the laurel sacred to him — one of the thirteen full-page colour woodcuts cut after Dalí’s watercolours for Ovid’s Art of Love, in which the gods preside over the lessons of love. A hand-signed, numbered impression on Arches, signed in the plate.

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Price : 800,00 € ( 912.00 USD )