Tristan & Iseult. Text by André Mary.
DALÍ, Salvador.
Sold by Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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Add to basketSold by Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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Add to basketFirst edition, first printing, number V of 25 copies with an extra suite of 21 etchings signed by Dalí, from a total edition of 125 with French text. The frontispiece is signed in pencil by Dalí, and the 20 etchings initialled by him. There were also editions of 125 in three other languages: English, German, and Italian. Dalí had a long relationship to this great chivalric romance telling of the doomed and passionate love affair between the knight Tristan, and the Irish princess Iseult who was betrothed to his uncle the King of Cornwall. He had in 1944 designed the sets, costumes, and a large painted backdrop for the surrealist ballet Mad Tristan, inspired by Wagner's opera, choreographed by Massine, and staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Almost half a century later, when Dalí died, suddenly of heart failure on a January morning in 1989, it was to his favourite recording of Wagner's Tristan & Isolde that he was listening. Field 70-10; Michler and Löpsinger 406-426. Folio. Original white wrappers housing the unbound book with titles to front cover in blue and gold, brown card folder housing the suite of loose prints, both together housed in a brown leather backed folder with a metal cover embossed with Gala and Dalí in a circle beneath a crown, all housed in the publisher's brown leather clamshell box with titles to spine gilt. Frontispiece and 20 full page colour drypoint etchings throughout the text, together with a separate suite of 21 loose colour drypoint etchings, all printed on Vélin d'Arches watermarked paper. Total of 42 prints. Plate sizes: 40 x 26.5 cm. Sheet sizes: 45 x 32.6 cm. Light toning to spine of wrappers and minor rubbing to the edges of the clamshell box, otherwise an excellent copy of this beautiful production.
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