'Butterfly Suite: Alsace / Strasbourg 1969' Lithograph by Salvador Dalí

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Salvador DALI, after (1904-1969)
Butterfly suite : Alsace / Strasbourg, 1969

Lithograph and heliogravure
Printed signature in the plate bottom right
Tall model, from the 700 unumbered edition
Printed in Matthieu (lithograph) and Draeger (heliogravure) workshops
On wove paper 99 x 62 cm (c. 40 x 25 in)

This artwork was edited by J. Schneider / Wucua in 1969 for the French Railway Company (SNCF). It belongs the "Butterfly suite".
Rare proof on wove vellum, not the ordinary edition on light paper.

About Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring subconscious imagery. Arguably, his most famous painting is The Persistence of Memory (1931), depicting limp melting watches.

References:

Catalog raisonné Field 69-2 D
Catalog raisonné Michler & Lopsinger 1229
Catalog raisonné Sahli 133

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