Salvador Dali Once Illustrated "Alice In Wonderland"
It was a match made is psychedelic Heaven. Surreal and melty, just what you’d expect from Dali.
In 1969, a print run of Alice In Wonderland was released featuring the surreal illustrations of Salvador Dali. The book contained twelve heliogravures according to Brain Pickings, one for each chapter.
A heliogravure is one of the oldest ways to reproduced photographic images, involving an expensive, time-consuming process. You can read all about it over here. The decision to use this technique helped emphasize the lush colors Dali favored.
Only the cover of the was different, a sketched etching in muted tones.
Thanks to the William Bennett Gallery for preserving Dali’s work in digital form!
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Wombatish 3 months agoThese are prints, there is no “original” in the plainest sense. Each print is considered an original as long as it is made from legitimate plates, but it is still just one of however many are in the edition, not to mention multiple runs off of one block. There’s the concept sketches (of which there might be more than one), the etching or plate (which would be unlikely to own, since they were often destroyed, but not entirely impossible), a proof, or other various “more special” versions of the print but it is still a print. Just saying… it’s not that a print isn’t special (something like a (likely signed) Dali print certainly would be), just that saying “I own the original, full stop.” is short-sighted and makes me doubt a bit.
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msgardenchef 3 months ago
This is mine, its actually the original sketch, with credited papers….
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