Salvador Dalí: "Las mil y una noches". Illustration - edition of 999 - 2014
Format 35 x 45,5 cm, 4 x 4 inks (4 colors-quatricromía)
Paper gut: In-size Modigliani Candido New 260 g
Previously unknown / unpublished masterful illustrations, from Dalí's 1966 commissioned work, inspired on "The one thousand and one nights". A work of 50 masterpiece illustrations, (to which this special edition, with the finest quality reproduction available, belongs). Property of a private collection, released, for the FIRST time, in Barcelona, with outmost quality, only, in this special first edition, extra-large illustrations-book, for collectors-only.
Notary sealed, exclusive numbered lot series of only 999 copies of The 1001 Nights collection were published, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Maestro's passing). The present illustration print belongs to the book lot series number 120 / 999.
Theme: "The Sheikh and the Mule":
- "You ought to teach me a spell for my witch wife"
- "It is very easy, when she sleeps, poor this water upon her as you say, "treacherous woman turn into a flea covered mule!"; and suddenly this mule you see, appeared".