SALVADOR DALI (SPANISH 1904-1989) Virgil Comforts Dante - Inferno 2, 1951-64 lithograph on paper 32 x 24 cm (12 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.) [sight] signed in pencil lower right, signed in plate
PROVENANCE Park West Gallery, Dover, DE Private Collection
EXPERTISE Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Park West Gallery (Copy available upon request)
LOT NOTES As stated on the Certificate, the present lot is one of one hundred illustrations of Dante`s Divine Comedy, printed after an original watercolor. Published by Les Editions d`Art Les Heures Claires, Paris. Bearing a blindstamp of the editor and artistic director of Les Heures Claires, Mr. Jean Estrade. One of twenty-five examples annotated g. a. and numbered in Arabic. From the collection of Mr. Albaretto, a friend, a patron, and a business associate of the artist and an owner of Les Heures Claires. This work was signed in pencil by Dali on November 24, 1974 in Paris. Dali himself provided a letter verifying the signing and provenance (now on file at Park West Gallery, DE)
