The Divine Comedy

Salvador Dalí
The Divine Comedy, 1970
Woodblock prints
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Las Vegas Art Museum, 2021; Gift of Barry T. Bates and Janet S. Dufek, 2000.
2021.08.027

Complete set of Salvador Dalí's illustrated addition of The Divine Comedy by Dante. Prints were not manually produced or signed by the artist.

Salvador Dalí was a painter and draughtsman whose imagery was intended to reflect the revelatory juxtapositions of his unconscious mind. Throughout his oeuvre, normally-solid objects such as bodies and landscapes are often warped, softened, and placed in awkward positions that suggest states of threat, mystery, or panic. His “melting clocks” painting, The Persistence of Memory, 1931, may be the most universally famous work of Surrealist art. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, Dalí studied art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) in Madrid. His paintings, prints, and sculptures have been exhibited widely around the world and several museums and exhibition spaces in Europe and North America have been established to display his work. He died in 1989. His body is buried in a crypt below the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres.