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

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

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Plate XI
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 XI is one of the most formally spare and most atmospherically powerful images in the portfolio — a composition of extraordinary economy in which a single creature dominates the picture plane with complete authority. The Mock Turtle — Carroll’s melancholy, perpetually weeping character whose name is a pun on the mock turtle soup fashionable in Victorian England — is rendered by Dalí as a creature of genuinely strange beauty: its shell a mosaic of deep teal, amber, rust, and gold, glowing with an internal warmth against the deep blue-grey wash that pools around and beneath it. The turtle’s head, turned in profile, has the beaked, eagle-like quality of Dalí’s most chimeric animal transformations — part reptile, part raptor, entirely impossible.

Above, in the pale upper register, two calligraphic presences inhabit opposite corners: at upper left, a minimal black figure — the familiar loop-headed Dalínian presence — leans into motion; at upper right, a golden cross or kite-like form rendered in amber line hovers with the ambiguity of a bird, a toy, or a sign. Below the turtle, the blue-grey wash dissolves into the white paper in the liquid, atmospheric way that distinguishes this plate as one of the most painterly in the series. The plate signature — large, loose, confident — sits lower centre, Dalí’s most expansive self-annotation in the portfolio.

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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