The Divine Comedy-Purgatory 24-The Tree Of Punishment- Wood Block-Believed To Be By Salvador Dali (61/150)

The Divine Comedy
In the early 1950s, in celebration of the 700th birthday of the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the Italian government commissioned the Surrealist master Salvador Dalí to create 100 illustrations for a commemorative edition of The Divine Comedy. Dalí’s hyper realistic, bizarre, and nightmarish imagery seemed like the perfect pairing to Dante’s visions of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, yet public outcry against the commissioning of a Spanish artist to accompany the work of an Italian cultural hero forced the Italian government to revoke its support for the project. Undaunted, Dalí worked with a French publisher to have 100 wood engravings (one for each of _The Divine Comedy's verses) made after his own watercolors, which were completed and published in 1963.
https://www.artsy.net/artist-series/salvador-dali-the-divine-comedy?page=7
From the Collection of Jane Remer

Notes: Please review pictures-Sold As Is

Good (shows signs of regular wear)

Fine Art, Works on Paper

18%

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