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

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

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Plate VII
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 VII is the most liquid and elemental image in the portfolio — a composition entirely given over to water, tears, and the sensation of drowning in one’s own emotion. The upper register is scattered with individual teardrop forms rendered in flat teal — precise, jewel-like, falling in a slow diagonal across the pale sky — before coalescing at upper right into a dense, turbulent mass of blue and purple wash from which a disembodied hand emerges, fingers splayed, reaching upward through the deluge. The entire middle ground swirls in luminous teal and green washes that move with the fluid, directional energy of a current — Carroll’s Pool of Tears made visible, the ocean of Alice’s own weeping that threatens to sweep her away.

At the lower register, two minimal calligraphic figures — rendered in pure black line with the economy of a Zen brushstroke — inhabit the pale ground beneath the flood: one a simple loop-headed creature with a rectangular body, the other a starburst explosion of radial lines. Their smallness against the vast aqueous field above them measures precisely the scale of Alice’s predicament — tiny figures in a world of her own making, unable to control the consequences of their own excess.

The palette — teal, aquamarine, pale yellow, the blue-black of deep water — is the most unified and the most tonally coherent in the series, the heliogravure process achieving the luminous, translucent quality of watercolour with particular beauty in this plate.

Printed by Princeton University Press on Mandeure paper and published by Maecenas Press / Random House, New York, 1969

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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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