Lot n° 70
Estimation :
1000 - 1200
EUR
Salvador Dalí: The Unfaithful Wife of Menelaus — from Ovid’s - Lot 70
Salvador Dalí: The Unfaithful Wife of Menelaus — from Ovid’s *The Art of Love*, c. 1979 (signed)
Color woodcut on Arches vellum
Signed in pencil “Dalí” lower right; numbered 118/144 in pencil lower left; signed and dated “Dalí 1976” on the woodblock, upper right
Dimensions—Image (print area): 28 × 18.5 cm (11 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 56 × 38 cm (22 × 15 in.); visible area (mat window): 42 × 29.5 cm (16 1/2 × 11 5/8 in.); Marie-Louise: 62 × 49 cm (24 3/8 × 19 1/4 in.)
Condition: Very fine condition; mounted on mat; unframed
References: Michler & Löpsinger 1526; Field 79-2 O
From the illustrated book *The Art of Love* by Ovid, published by Éditions du Centre Culturel de Paris; copy 118/144 on large Arches vellum
Helen of Troy—the unfaithful wife of Menelaus, whose abduction sparked the Trojan War—depicted as a reclining female nude in a hammock of light drapery beneath a tree, set within a lush green landscape, rendered in Dalí’s soft, fluid watercolor washes, engraved as one of the thirteen full-page color woodcuts for Ovid’s *The Art of Love*. Proof signed in pencil and numbered on Arches paper, signed and dated on the woodblock. For the sale, the book’s colophon page (bearing the number 118/144 and Dalí’s pencil signature) serves as the primary document of authenticity.
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