DALI (Salvador) - OVIDE. - Lot 99

DALI (Salvador) - OVIDE. L'Art d'aimer. Paris: Centre culturel de Paris, [1979]. - In-folio, 560 x 380 : 111 pp, (5 ff. first and last 2 blank). In sheets. Monumental edition designed and produced by Gilbert Chevallier and Gilbert Navarre, illustrated with 15 color compositions by Salvador DALI (1904-1989). These include an original double-page lithograph, an original double-page etching and 13 full-page color woodcuts. The texts and woodcuts were printed by Pierre Jean Mathan. Edition of 250 copies. All compositions are signed by Dalí in the plate. A chapel copy, unsigned and unnumbered, one of the few printed on japon nacré. Preserved in its original condition, it is offered as printed, protected by simple kraft paper, without cover, folder or slipcase. The original lithograph is printed on Arches vellum. A very well-preserved copy, with only a few, almost imperceptible, marginal brown spots.