DALI Salvador (1904-1989). La Conquête du Cosmos. Boxed set containing 12 original color lithographs, embossed, E.A. signed in the margins. Paris, Editions Jean Lavigne, s.d. (1974-1977). 100 x 70 cm for the plate, 75 x 55 for the image. Complete set of 12 lithographs: "Unicorne laser disintegrates cosmic rhinoceros horns", "Vision planétaire et scatologique", "Dali martien muni d'un double microscope holo-électronique", "Le sang du yin et le yong", "Les montres gélatines de l'espace-temps", "Le cercle viscéral du Cosmos", "Saturnian giraffes", "The Caduceus of Mars powered by Jupiter's fireball", "Anti-matter butterflies", "Infra-Terrestrials worshipped by Dali at age 5 because he thought he was an insect", "Philosopher crushed by the Cosmos" and "The last man from the last planet".

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