The Five Spanish Immortals
In the early 1960s Dali was commissioned by the Swiss publisher Jean Schneider (Basel) to produce a print edition based on historically interesting Spanish figures, both real and fictious; five figures chosen were: Cervantes , Don Quixote, El Cid, El Greco and Velasquez.
In 1965, Schneider published the edition, titled Five Spanish Immortals. The prints, original etchings, were printed in a total editio of 180 examples on two diffrent papers, Rives (in sepia ink) and Japon (in black ink).
Each of these prints was hand signed by Dali in pencil, within the paper margin (lower right), and each of the 125 examples on Rives were numbered /125. This edition was marketed by the New York based company called The Collectors Guild.
The remainder of the edition, thirty (30) prints on Japon paper, numbered /XXX and twenty-five (25) on Japon (in bistre ink) were marketed by the publisher.
In 1968, the Collectors Guild, through a contract, published another edition of the Immortals, an unlimited and unsigned edition. To distinguish between the two editions, Dali scratched his name within the image on each of the five plates. |
