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Salvador Dalí. L’Immaculée Conception (The Immaculate Conception)

Salvador Dalí

L’Immaculée Conception (The Immaculate Conception)

Published 1930; additional documents c. 1930–35; rebound 1942

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South The Edward Steichen Galleries
Author André Breton, Paul Éluard
Collaborating author Nusch Éluard (born Maria Benz) (additional text), José Corticchiato [José Corti] (additional text)
Book binder Paul Bonet (rebinding)
Publisher Éditions Surréalistes, Paris, Librairie José Corti, Paris
Medium Book with one gravure and etching by Dalí (frontispiece); letterpress text; line-block vignette by Dalí on title page and on publisher’s original paper cover. Rebound with an original pencil drawing by Dalí, manuscript materials by Paul and Nusch Éluard, Breton, and Dalí, and other documents. Bespoke black leather rebinding by Bonet for Éluard, front and back covers each with a gelatin silver print, colored leather onlays, blind tooling, and foil stamping
Dimensions Pages (dimensions vary): from 9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in. (23 × 18 cm) to 9 13/16 × 8 ¼ in. (25 × 21 cm); Book (closed): 10 × 7 3/4 × 1 in. (25.4 × 19.7 × 2.6 cm)
Printer Ducros et Colas, Paris
Edition 2,116. 111 numbered 1–111, in three subsets on different papers; two hors commerce and three unnumbered author’s copies; all with Dalí’s frontispiece. 2,000 without the frontispiece. This copy, no. 6, on Japon blanc nacré paper
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 462.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Spanish, 1904–1989 114 works online

The artist, author, critic, impresario, and provocateur Salvador Dalí burst onto the art scene in 1929 and rarely left the public eye until his death six decades later.

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