Salvador Dali Divine Comedy - 1963

Between 1951 and 1960, Dali created 101 watercolor drawings to interpret the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy, a poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). These works have been reproduced using a wood engraving technique. With this technique, wood engravers carved 3500 blocks for the prints that make up the suite. These 100 woodblock engravings were published as a set of six volumes. Each volume has a title page, a table of contents, and justification page contained in a cardboard slip case with matching inner boards. Each woodblock from the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy is part of a Canto or book chapter which is about 8 pages in length. The size of each sheet is about 13" x 10 1/3" with an image size of 7 1/4" x 9 1/2".

I purchase only entire sets of the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy, and if the book covers are in poor condition, I will split up the set and sell the individual illustrations. The illustrations may be unsigned or signed in the plate. The occurrence of unsigned vs. plate signed illustrations is rather random, and varies between books. Pricing for unsigned woodblocks from the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy starts at $150.00 and for those signed in the plate at $225.00. Each illustration comes with a certificate of authenticity for the entire set, and I include the the entire Canto (text, cover page, and illustration, as available). The availability of unsigned and plate signed illustrations changes regularly, so please request availability and condition reports for the works you are interested in. Click here to view framing options.

If you are interested in a complete set, I have several available. Some have sets of decompositions. E-MAIL for PRICE and CONDITION REPORT.

#	Inferno	Purgatory	Paradise
01	The Delightful Mount	The reign of the penitents	Dante
02	Reassurance	The guiding Angel	The Angel of the First Heaven
03	Charon	The Neglectful	Piccarda Donati
04	News of the Lower Depths of Hell	The powers of Soul	Beatrice resolves Dante's doubts
05	Minos	Virgil's admonishment	In the heaven of Mercury
06	Cerberus	The Neglectful meets violent death	Church and Empire
07	The Avaricious and the Prodigal	The Law of climbing	Dante in doubt
08	The Irascible	The guardians of the valley of the Princes	The Ascent to Venus
09	The Furies	The Eagle of Grace	The bishop cum troubadour
10	Farinata	Our Lady of the Annunciation	The Song of the wise Spirits
11	In dark limbo	The proud One	The dust of Souls
12	The Minotaur	Ecstatic visions	The apparition of Dante's great-great-grandfather
13	The wood and the Suicide	The Second Cornice	Original Perfection
14	The Blasphemers	The blind for envy	The Cross of Mars
15	The Seducers	The Angel of Mercy	Cacciaguida's history lesson
16	In the hands of Antaeus	The smoke of Irascibility	The Two Circles of Spirits
17	On Geryon's back	Arachne	Cacciaguida sees Dante's exile in God
18	The Flatterer	The Slothful	Beatrice comforts the Poet
19	The Sodomites	The siren of the Dream	In the Heaven of Jupiter
20	The Black Cherub	The Avaricious	The Constellation of blessed Spirits
21	Fraud	The Golden Age	The celestial staircase
22	The Corrupt	Prodigality	Divine impenetrability
23	Ugolino and Ruggieri	Greed	The Garden of Christ
24	The Punishment of Vanni Fucci	The Tree of Punishment	The Joy of the blessed
25	The Centaur	The Lustful	The apparition of St. James
26	The Simoniac	The two crowds of the Lustful	The Apotheosis of the Virgin Mary
27	The Logician Devil	Virgil's last words	The Angels of the Empyrean
28	Bertram dal Bornio	The Divine Forest	St. Peter and Dante
29	Mohammed	Dante and Beatrice	Arrivalat the Empyrean
30	Gianni Schicchi's bite	Dante's repentance	The infinite Beauty of Beatrice
31	The prophecy of Vanni Fucci	Dante re-awakes	The loyal Angels
32	The traitor of Montaperti	Towards the Tree of Law	The Archangel Gabriel
33	Manto	Dante Purified	St. Bernard's prayer to the Virgin
34	The Waterfall of the Phlegethon	Click here to view framing options.