Salvador Dali, Maître Editue de l'Île Sonnante from Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel, Original Large Lithograph, 1973

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Salvador dali
maître editue de l'île sonnante (master aedituus of the ringing island)
from "les songes drôlatiques de pantagruel" (the … Read more Salvador dali
maître editue de l'île sonnante (master aedituus of the ringing island)
from "les songes drôlatiques de pantagruel" (the drolatic dreams of pantagruel)
from the rarest edition of 50 only

original lithograph on japan paper
year: 1973
76 x 56 cm ca
hand-signed
hand-numbered 8/50

catalogue raisonné:
r.michler and l. W. Löpsinger
"salvador dali, catalogue raisonné of prints ii - lithographs and wood engravings 1956-1980" pages 155 - ref. 1417

with certificate

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history of this artwork

sometime in the 1960s, spanish surrealist artist salvador dali, already considered one of the leading artists worldwide, discovered a special book published in paris in 1565 by richard breton, as the 'last work' of the writer françois rabelais, and named it after his bestseller about the giant pantagruel. This book, "les songes drôlatiques de pantagruel", i.e. The drolatic dreams of pantagruel (where 'drolatic' means funny and amusing), consists of 120 woodcuts, each page showing a completely different figure: strange, hybrid creatures, combinations of man and animal, insect, plant and object, pot-bellied or hunchbacked, with special noses, snouts, trunks or beaks; each having a title in the end of the book.
enraptured and inspired by the new discovery, he chose 25 images and devised variations on these then four-century-old prints. These images have been printed as original lithographs at atelier grapholith in paris, and published by carpentier in geneve in 1973.

this very artwork is one meant to represent maître editue de l'île sonnante (master aedituus of the ringing island)

here the original text in french (an english translation follows):

cette caricature d'un personnage d'église, en camail et en capuchon, revêtu d'une soutane festonnée, et dont la figure est masquée entièrement par son capuchon, tenant de la main droite un bouquet de fleurs, de l'autre une aiguière penchée qui répand sa liqueur, me paroît être le maître editue de l'île sonnante, qui dit à pantagruel et à ses compagnons : « beuvons, amys\. N'ayez paour «que vin et vivres icy faillent: car quand le ciel « seroyt d'airain et la terre de fer, encore vivres ne nous fauldroyent\.\. » liv. V, chap. Vi.

this caricature of a church figure, in a cap and hood, dressed in a festooned cassock, and whose face is entirely hidden by his hood, holding in his right hand a bouquet of flowers, in the other a leaning ewer which pours its liquor, seems to me to be the master aedituus of the ringing island, who says to pantagruel and his companions: "let us drink, friends\. Do not be afraid that wine and food will fail here: for even if the sky were of bronze and the earth of iron, we would still lack food\." book v, chap. Vi.
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sold with certificate of authenticity, copy of the catalogue raisonné, and copy of the original woodcut and which inspired dali (we have it in our collection) this piece has an attribution mark,
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