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

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

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Plate X
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 X is the most joyfully anarchic and chromatically explosive image in the portfolio — a composition organised around Carroll’s Duchess’s baby, which Alice discovers has transformed into a pig. In Dalí’s rendering, the pig becomes a glorious, luminous creature: a pink and amber animal outlined in deep purple, radiating yellow light from its entire body as if the transformation itself is the source of illumination, floating above a bare branching tree whose dark trunk descends through the composition like a spine. Around and below it, the world of Wonderland erupts in full chromatic abandon — blue flower clusters at left, orange and yellow drips cascading from the pig’s radiant body, dark green botanical forms at right, and in the lower register a group of calligraphic figures in dynamic motion, their black line bodies gesturing upward toward the impossible creature above.

Three butterflies — a red one, a blue-and-black one, and a large yellow patterned one — hover in the upper register with the precision of entomological specimens, their natural exactitude a deliberate counterpoint to the surrealist impossibility of the glowing airborne pig below. At upper left, a black calligraphic figure twirls a hoop — one of Dalí’s recurring peripheral presences, the small human gesture that measures the scale of the marvellous. The plate signature appears lower right in the warm, loose hand that distinguishes Dalí’s more energetic compositions.

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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