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Salvador Dalí — Dix recettes d’immortalité (Ten Recipes for Immortality)
Salvador Dalí

Dix recettes d’immortalité (Ten Recipes for Immortality)

Salvador Dalí's elaborate mixed-media set consisting of 11 etchings with drypoint and heliogravure, including three pop-up multiples with various finishes on fine Auvergne paper. The complete work features French and English text, housed in a custom paper folio with colored binding, tinted acrylic case, cast iron telephone handle, and original brown cloth-covered slipcase—a maximalist exploration of immortality themes.

Medium
The complete set of 11 etchings with drypoint and heliogravure (three are pop-up multiples, two in colors and one with gilt), on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper (with a spiral immortality design by Dalí), the full sheets and with margins, the multiples in heavy card stock, plastic or metal, with text in French and English, all contained in the original paper folios with colored binding and text, original paper folio with gilt title, original tinted acrylic case by Henri Mercher and cast iron telephone handle by Keusseyan marked 'Dali', two locks, articulated jaws, all within the original brown cloth-covered slipcase.

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October 22, 2020

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Salvador Dalí, Dix recettes d’immortalité (Ten Recipes for Immortality)

Salvador Dalí's elaborate mixed-media set consisting of 11 etchings with drypoint and heliogravure, including three pop-up multiples with various finishes on fine Auvergne paper. The complete work features French and English text, housed in a custom paper folio with colored binding, tinted acrylic case, cast iron telephone handle, and original brown cloth-covered slipcase—a maximalist exploration of immortality themes.

Medium
The complete set of 11 etchings with drypoint and heliogravure (three are pop-up multiples, two in colors and one with gilt), on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper (with a spiral immortality design by Dalí), the full sheets and with margins, the multiples in heavy card stock, plastic or metal, with text in French and English, all contained in the original paper folios with colored binding and text, original paper folio with gilt title, original tinted acrylic case by Henri Mercher and cast iron telephone handle by Keusseyan marked 'Dali', two locks, articulated jaws, all within the original brown cloth-covered slipcase.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, Conceptual, Mixed Media, Etching, Avant-Garde, Printmaking, Philosophical, Elaborate, Modern, Spanish

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Collected by

Hamilton Selway Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Alex Capecelatro, Saul Beceiro Novo