70 - Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) A Generous Courier, 1979 Original woodcut printed in color on Arches vellum Signed on the plate in the lower right; unsigned and unnumbered in pencil, as published in the book Dimensions: + Sheet: 55.5 × 37.5 cm (21.9 × 14.8 in.) + Image: approx. 27 × 21 cm (10.6 × 8.3 in.) Condition: Good condition. Moutons preserved on the right and bottom. Small notch in the center of the lower edge. A few small pinholes in the margins. Unframed. References: Michler & Löpsinger 1537; Field 79-2 Period: after a 1976 watercolor; engraved and printed by Matthieu, Zurich, 1978; published in 1979 Excerpt from Ovid’s *The Art of Love*, Centre Culturel de Paris, 1979, limited edition of 250 copies. One of the thirteen full-page woodcuts based on Dalí’s watercolors for Ovid’s *The Art of Love*: the winged horse soaring into the clouds, Dalí’s wash rendered plate by plate.