signed SALVADOR DALI Autobiography Benvenuto Cellini RARE autographed FIRST EDITION numbered EXCELLENT NR Start Price USD 1,950.00 Current Price USD 1,950.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 14, 2008 Location Coral Gables, FL See more about 'signed SALVADOR DALI Autobiography Benvenuto Cellini ' Description REAL   and     ORIGINAL      NO  DUST JACKET       IN EXCELLENT CONDITION   In 1945, when he was living in the United States, Salvador Dalí illustrated The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini for the publisher Doubleday (New York), which produced a limited edition of 1000 books, all numbered and signed by the artist.    This is copy NO. 523     Translated by John Addington Symonds;   In the colophon of the book in the English language, A.P. Tedesco was shown as the designer and director of the edition.   The collection of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation contains as part of the painter’s legacy the copies from that edition numbered 16 and 102, together with all the original drawings used for illustrating the volume.   Forty-one illustrations appear in the book, all but one of which are owned by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, which also possesses some studies and an additional drawing which was not used for the publication in the end.   Of these forty-one original drawings, all done with India ink, fifteen were colored using watercolors. Most are signed and dated: «Dalí 1945», «Gala Dalí 1945», «Salvador Dalí 1945» and were done on a single type of paper, cut to different sizes for each drawing.   While Salvador Dalí was still alive the drawings were shown to the public in the Four Hundred Works by Salvador Dalí from 1914 to 1983, organized jointly in 1983 by the Ministry of Culture and the Government of Catalonia in homage to Salvador Dalí, first in Madrid and then in Barcelona.   After the artist’s death the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation organized a further two exhibitions with these illustrations: A Singular Dalí, organized by the Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués (from 19 June to 1 November 1998) and Dalí and the Power of Imagination, held at the Nordiska Akvarellmuseet in Skärhamn, Sweden (from 13 May to 2 September 2001).   NO   RESERVE !                  Please, ask questions before bidding. Place a Bid!