"Hidden Faces" 1944 DALI, Salvador
$450
DALI, Salvador
[413] pp.
1944
First Edition
8 1/4" x 5 7/8"
The unusual jacket, frontispiece and tail piece were drawn by Dali especially for this book.
Dali's only novel. In richly visual language Dali describes the lives and loves of a group of aristocratic characters who, in their beauty, luxury, and extravagance, symbolize the decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war, is a brilliant vehicle for Dali's ideas, and an evocation of pre-war Europe. Valuable not only for Dali's own specially drawn illustrations, but also because it synthesizes all of the themes in Dali's art.
*Jacket panels have separated, but now preserved under archival mylar*