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

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

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Plate XIII
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 XIII is among the most chromatically radiant and compositionally dynamic images in the portfolio — a blazing fusion of amber, yellow, teal, and blue that brings together Carroll’s White Rabbit and the Looking-Glass world in a single image of extraordinary visual energy. A great blue and teal rabbit dominates the upper two-thirds of the composition, its ears striped in teal and gold dots, its body rendered in the luminous blue wash that the heliogravure process achieves with particular translucency — the animal simultaneously solid and atmospheric, present and dissolving. Against and within its body, a bare black tree grows in fluid calligraphic line, its branches extending into botanical arabesque. At lower centre, a tiny winged figure — Alice, perhaps, or a fairy — stands on an ornate golden chair or mushroom, holding a long wand or rod that extends diagonally across the composition with the authority of a conductor’s baton.

At upper right, a large praying mantis — rendered with the entomological precision that recurs across the portfolio’s insect vocabulary — perches with the stillness of a natural history specimen, its presence both observational and surreally charged: the mantis as witness, as predator, as the patient logic of the natural world watching the dream unfold. The lower register blazes in deep amber and orange — a ground of pure warm colour from which the composition rises — and the plate signature appears lower left within the crowned oval cartouche that Dalí uses for his most elaborately self-conscious self-annotations.

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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