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Salvador Dalí. Onan

Salvador Dalí

Onan

Published 1934; rebound 1936

Book with one gravure, aquatint, and drypoint by Dalí (frontispiece); letterpress text. Bespoke rebinding by Hugnet and Christy for Hugnet, with leather, blind tooling, and foil stamping, front cover with green dye-colored sand between two sheets of lead glass with rayon-covered board elements on top, back cover with a dried seahorse between two sheets of lead glass; printed paper flyleaves, front flyleaf with collage by Hugnet in cut-and-pasted printed papers and pencil

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Author Georges Hugnet
Medium Book with one gravure, aquatint, and drypoint by Dalí (frontispiece); letterpress text. Bespoke rebinding by Hugnet and Christy for Hugnet, with leather, blind tooling, and foil stamping, front cover with green dye-colored sand between two sheets of lead glass with rayon-covered board elements on top, back cover with a dried seahorse between two sheets of lead glass; printed paper flyleaves, front flyleaf with collage by Hugnet in cut-and-pasted printed papers and pencil
Dimensions Pages (dimensions vary, approx.): 11 × 9" (27.9 × 22.9 cm); Book (closed): 13 3/8 × 11 5/8 × 11/16" (34 × 29.5 × 1.8 cm)
Publisher Éditions Surréalistes, Paris
Printer Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris
Edition 277. Fifty numbered 1–50, in three subsets on different papers; twenty-five unnumbered author’s copies hors commerce on pink paper; two reserved for Dalí and Hugnet, printed with their names on Chine paper; all with Dalí’s frontispiece. 200 numbered 51–250 on Alfa Bouffant paper, without the frontispiece. This copy, Hugnet’s author’s copy, printed with his name
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 464.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Spanish, 1904–1989 112 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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