Le Tricorne Original Etching by Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne Original Etching
by Salvador Dali
Plate 2
Le Tricorne Etching by Salvador
Dali Framed and Matted
Plate 2

Original etching in black ink on Van Gelder Zonen wove paper from 1958. One of the 13 etchings from copper plates issued with the portfolio Le Tricorne, illustrated by Salvador Dali. Image 2 (using the numbering from the full suite of 20 wood engravings). The etching shows a typically gaunt horse or donkey standing looking at the horizon.

Reference: Ralf Michler and Lutz W. Lopsinger, Salvador Dali: Catalogue Raisonne of Etchings and Mixed Media Prints, 1924-1980, Volume I, Prestel, 1995, p. 157, number 71. (Some websites list Michler and Lopsinger, Volume II, numbers 1018-1037 from the lithograph and wood engravings, but that range is for the full suite of wood engravings, not the etchings.) Additional reference: Albert Field, The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali, The Salvador Dali Archives, 1996, No 59-1, p. 20 (etchings listed in margin notes).

  • Artist: Salvador Dali, (Spanish, 1888-1985)
  • Title: Le Tricorne etching (image 2 using numbering from the woodblock prints)
  • Date: 1958
  • Edition size: 60 etchings (for insertion in portfolios of 20 wood engravings)
  • Image (plate) size: 8.4 in H x 5.9 in. W (21.5 cm H x 25 cm W)
  • Sheet size: 12.6 in H x 9.8 in W (32 cm H x 25 cm W)

Price is $895 USD. Certificate of Authenticity from J D Smith Fine Art. Free shipping to North America on this piece. Shipment insured for purchase price.