DANTE ALIGHIERI

Rare original lithograph, executed by Henri Martin for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 15 published in July 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins, artist's signature in the plate, publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin, mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered luxury edition stamp on the verso, pale marginal foxing.
Lithograph inspired by an extract from Dante's Divine Comedy.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe Moderne consists of unpublished chromolithographs which, unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche

Rare original lithograph, executed by Eugène Trigoulet for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 15 published in July 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins, artist's signature in the plate, publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin, mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered luxury edition stamp on the reverse, pale marginal foxing.
Lithograph inspired by an extract from Gustave Flaubert's Chant de la mort.
Magnificent French monthly publication issued between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consisted of original chromolithographs which, unlike other reviews such as Les Maît

Editions d'art les heures claires, Paris 1959-1963, 26.5 x 33 cm, 6 volumes in leaves in covers, chemises and slipcases.

First print of Salvador Dali's illustrations published with 4765 copies, ours being one of the numbered copies on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper.

The work is illustrated with 100 original Salvador Dali compositions engraved on wood in colour by Raymond Jacquet.
Spines of the slipcases lightly sun-damaged and some rare slightly foxed leaves.

In 1950, at the request of the Libreria dello Stato in Rome, Salvador Dali undertook to produce one hundred watercolours corresponding to the one hundred songs of Dante's @Devine Comedy#. In 1951,