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

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

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Plate IX
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 IX returns to the open, luminous palette of the portfolio’s most elegant compositions — a warm white ground across which Dalí orchestrates a dialogue between two presences, two flowers, and two registers of visual reality. At centre, a golden-amber female figure — Alice rendered in Dalí’s warm intaglio wash, her body nude and fluid, her dress dissolving into blue and gold streams that flow downward — reaches toward a small crimson flower at the end of a horizontal black line, the gesture of offering or receiving suspended in the moment before contact. Below, occupying its own separate visual register, a vivid red poppy emerges from a burst of black radiating lines — a flower that is simultaneously botanical and explosive, its petals precisely observed, its surrounding halo of marks transforming it into something closer to a sun or a wound than a garden flower.

At the upper left, a tiny calligraphic figure — loop-headed, in motion — and a distant reclining form inhabit the horizon line, maintaining Dalí’s characteristic practice of populating the periphery of his compositions with minimal, almost shorthand presences that suggest narrative without defining it. The plate signature appears lower centre in the warm ochre of the ground itself — barely distinguishable from the paper, a signature that is almost an absence.

The composition is among the most formally resolved and emotionally tender in the series — the figure’s reaching gesture, the flower’s receptive stillness, the blue and gold of the flowing dress creating a visual warmth that balances the explosive energy of the poppy below.

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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