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Salvador Dalí. Les chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror)

Salvador Dalí

Les chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror)

Published 1934 (text written and first published 1868–69, gravures 1932–34)

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South The Edward Steichen Galleries
Author Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse)
Publisher Éditions Albert Skira
Medium Book, loose as issued, with forty-two photogravures of engravings (thirty full page and twelve vignettes printed within the text); letterpress text; supplementary suite of forty-four photogravures of engravings with “remarques”; publisher’s original loose paper wrapper
Dimensions pages: 13 × 9 7/8 in. (33 × 25.1 cm); book (closed): 13 × 10 1/4 × 2 5/8 in. (33 × 26 × 6.6 cm)
Printer of plates Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris
Printer of text Philippe Gonin , Paris
Edition 210 announced, approx. 130 produced. Forty numbered 1–40, with a supplementary suite of gravures with “remarques”; eighty unevenly numbered 41–200; ten hors commerce numbered I–X, for the artist and collaborators, with the supplementary suite. This copy, no. 9, with the suite
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 463.2022.A-B
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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