Signed Salvador Dali “Dante’s Divine Comedy/Inferno Canto Twenty-fourth” With COA

Salvador Dali “The Stranger’s Vision” From: The Divine Comedy / Dante’s Inferno Suite - Canto Ventesimoqquarto (Canto Twenty-fourth) Hand Signed in Pencil by Dali (lower right corner) Includes Certificate of Authenticity. Woodcut, 10” x 12”, unframed. Limited Edition: e.a. (épreuve d'artiste = Artist's Proof) marked in pencil lower left corner. Catalogue raisonne Michler Lopsinger REFERENCE: “The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali” by Albert Field. Pages 189-200. Published by The Salvador Dali Archives. ​ This print is a rare and collectable work of art. It is in excellent condition. The gallery price for individual pieces from this suite is well over $1,000. ***FREE LOCAL PICKUP*** The piece is from Dali’s famed “Divine Comedy / Dante’s Inferno” suite which contains works depicting incredible imagery that ranges from the grotesque to the sublime, as the artist follows Dante from the deepest circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and into heavenly Paradise. These works were created by the technique of wood block engraving with approximately 35 separate blocks per suite image. Dali himself thought the combined suite to be one of the most important of his career and is considered by many today to be his most incredible and notable work. Check out my other Artwork, Vintage space, baseball, Elvis & other entertainment Trading Cards, G.I. Joe, Video Game, Disney, Muppet, Magazines, Comic Books/Graphic Novels, Cereal Boxes, Lunchboxes, Wrestling WWE/WWF, Toy, Artwork, Theatre, Movie, Animation, Sheet Music, Doll & lots more offerings by clicking on my icon! ***FREE LOCAL PICKUP*** DETAILED HISTORY IN THE EARLY 1950’S SALVADOR DALI WAS INVITED BY THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TO COMMEMORATE THE BIRTH OF DANTE ALIGHIERI, ITALY’S MOST FAMOUS POET, BY PRODUCING A SERIES OF ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A FULL-TEXT DELUXE EDITION OF DANTE’S MASTERPIECE, THE DIVINE COMEDY. ULTIMATELY, THE ILLUSTRATIONS WERE NOT WELL RECEIVED BY THE ITALIANS, AS IT WAS DEEMED INAPPROPRIATE FOR A SPANISH PAINTER, RATHER THAN AN ITALIAN PAINTER TO HAVE ILLUSTRATED THE WORK OF ITALY’S GREATESTP POET. EVEN THOUGH THE PROJECT WAS DROPPED IN ITALY, DALI AND FRENCH PUBLISHER JOSEPH FORET CONTINUED TO PURSUE THE PUBLICATION OF THE DIVINE COMEDY. JOSEPH FORET INTRODUCED THE PROJECT TO LES HEURES CLAIRES, A FRENCH EDITING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY, THAT ULTIMATELY TOOK FULL CHARGE OF THE PROJECT. AFTER 55 MONTHS OF PATIENT AND ASSIDUOUS WORK STARTED IN APRIL 1959, THE EDITION WAS COMPLETED THE 23RD OF NOVEMBER 1963.