Purple: “Fegefeuer” - (“Purgatory”) 33 chaptersģ. This is to keep order matching each of 100 images with text.Įach set has 3 volumes (suites) with complete text and 100 color woodcuts (each individually matted) 1959-1963 (published 1974) 13x10x3/8 inches (sheets) Full margins.Ģ. Example: “H 34” for last chapter of “Hölle”. NOTE: Februto assist in keeping correct order each mat was lightly pencil marked at left bottom of mat with number of corresponding chapter. The window-matted Dali images are not bound, issued loose in their original red, purple, and blue slipcases. It is set Number 235/1000, confirmed by its internal 235 cover page ("tirage" -"Auflage"). This pristine suite of 100 matted and hand-carved woodcut Dali illustrations are from the exclusive 1974 German Edition of Dali’s “Göttliche Komödie” (“Divine Comedy”). All were confirmed pristine and in correct order representing German text of each 100 chapters of Dante’s literary masterpiece. This treasure was kept in storage for 45 years! It was opened Februby owner Cooprider for “white-glove” content inventory of each matted woodcut illustration totaling 100. The German edition of the Dali “Divine Comedy” ("Göttliche Komödie") is different from any other version in that the woodblock prints are mounted to an Arches backing paper and covered with another piece of Arches paper with a cutout for the woodblock image. Jawdat Naffouj, Landstuhl, received set #235 direct from the publisher of the first "Divine Comedy" edition, Jean Estrade, and issued the series, in 1974. Jawdat Naffouj, ( Producer of the German Edition) for collector Coop Cooprider in Germany where he lived at the time. The original #235 shipping box is one of 7 sets sent in 1974 direct from Jean Estrade of “Les Heures Claires” in Paris to Landstuhl via Dr. THIS LITHOGRAPH IS PART OF ONE EDITION #235 THAT IS BEING SOLD SEPARATELY. This Salvador Dali illustration "The Guiding Angel" was inspired by Chapter 2 Fegefeuer (Purgatory)įrom the German edition #235 of “Göttliche Komödie” (Divine Comedy)
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