Dalí, Salvador (ill.) — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated and signed by Dalí

Dalí, Salvador (ill.) — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: Random House and Maecenas Press, 1969 

Folio (470 mm x 318 mm). Unbound as issued, signed on the title page in pencil (“Salvador Dalí”), original etched frontispiece, 12 illustrated heliogravures. Original half straight-grained morocco and linen-covered clamshell portfolio, spine gilt-lettered; rubbed with minor loss, upper joint splitting, some toning and soiling, ties perished. 

Signed, limited edition of Dalí's Surrealist interpretation of Carroll's classic—number 1,826 of 2,500 copies.

There are many parallels between Carroll’s literary style and the Surrealist movement, making Random House’s collaboration with Dalí for this limited edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland particularly fitting. The present work “seems not so much to translate a literary text into another medium as to provide a complementary experience, one in which Alice herself is not really involved and very few characters are depicted” (Burnstein). Here, the figure of Alice evokes Dalí's early sketch and later painting, Landscape with Girl Skipping Rope, 1936.

REFERENCES

Burnstein in Carroll, XIV; Crutch, 246