Salvador Dalí – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Plate I (1969)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Plate I (1969)

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Plate 1
Series: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Portfolio (1969)
Year: 1969
Medium: Heliogravure in colours on Mandeure paper
Image Size: 39.4 × 26.7 cm (15 1/2 × 10 1/2 in)
Sheet Size: 43.2 × 29.2 cm (17 × 11 1/2 in)
Edition: 2,500 — this example: 1,650/2,500
Signature: Signed “Dalí / 1968” in plate
Watermark: Mandeure
Printer: Princeton University Press, New Jersey
Publisher: Maecenas Press — Random House, New York
Frame: Unframed
Type: Limited edition heliogravure — from the complete Alice portfolio

Description :

Plate I from Salvador Dalí’s celebrated 1969 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland portfolio presents the central protagonist of Lewis Carroll’s narrative — Alice herself — in a composition of dreamlike buoyancy and surrealist elegance. A luminous amber-orange figure, rendered in Dalí’s fluid intaglio line, soars upward into the picture plane as if pulled skyward by an invisible force, her dress billowing into a vortex of warm colour. Below, a seated shadow figure watches — grounded, dark, the counterweight to Alice’s airborne liberation. A geometric form floats above, a small flower anchors the lower register, and a bird cuts across the pale sky: a composition of opposites held in perfect Dalínian equilibrium.

The image establishes the visual and psychological tone for the entire portfolio: Carroll’s world of impossible logic and physical impossibility rendered through Dalí’s own equally impossible visual universe, the two dreamers meeting in a space where gravity, proportion, and causality have all been cheerfully suspended. Dalí’s choice to render Alice in warm amber — the only colour in a composition otherwise executed in black and ochre line — makes her simultaneously the most present and the most ethereal element of the image, a figure of pure golden energy in a world of shadows.

Printed by Princeton University Press on Mandeure paper — a French fine art paper identified by its watermark — and published by Maecenas Press / Random House, New York, in a limited edition of 2,500. Signed “Dalí / 1968” in the plate.

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FAQ

Is this an original Dalí print?
Yes — an original heliogravure in colours on Mandeure paper, signed “Dalí / 1968” in the plate, from the 1969 Maecenas Press / Random House edition of 2,500.

What is the edition size?
2,500 impressions — this example is number 1,650.

Can I acquire the complete portfolio?
Yes — the complete set of 14 framed prints plus the first edition book is available separately. Contact us for details.

What is a heliogravure?
A photomechanical intaglio printing technique of exceptional tonal range and chromatic subtlety — one of the finest reproductive processes in the history of fine art printing.

Is the work framed?
No — sold unframed. Please contact us for framing options.

Do you ship internationally?
Yes — worldwide, with museum-grade flat packaging, full insurance, and shipment tracking.

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