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Batch 78 - Salvador Dalí (1904-1989).
Starting price : 600 €
IMPORTANT WALLET CASING with two panels in the shape of two adjacent volumes in Havana leather, parchment and metal, moving resin wheel
Casing in the shape of 2 adjacent volumes carrying a moving wheel on one side and composition in paper pulp. Sold without the 10 engravings it originally included.
Edition of 275 copies.
Signed “Dali” on one of the pages inside.
Dimensions: 83 x 64 x 20 cm.
Directed by Yves and Ariane Lancell Gauguet,
The Alchemy of the Philosophers brings together
ancient alchemical texts and manuscripts in
unpublished original translations into French
and in English. Chinese philosophies,
Indian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and
Western are represented by these texts
keys. Dalí's book is designed to be
easily consulted despite its large
size, thanks to the specially designed box
this effect. This is an edition in the form
of a book-object or an artist's book (offered in a box resembling two volumes, which contains the sheets, the plates "in bulk" and an "alchemical wheel", filled with mercury): an exemplary work for the diversity of techniques, for the skills of the author and for the exceptional intuitions of artistic experimentation. The mature Dalí meditates on the principle of alchemy, based on the idea of natural metamorphosis, that is to say the belief that all metals would end up
turn into gold after millions
of years. What nature cannot improve
that after a long period of time, the being
human being can achieve it through his art, and in
very little time. This is the incredible myth
by Dalí.
This work no longer contains the 10 engravings originally contained in the box.
Bibliography: Referenced in the catalogue raisonné “The official Catalog of the graphic works of Salvador Dali” by Albert Field under number 75-12 pages 105.
600/800€