One of the most recognizable names in 20th-century art, Spanish printmaker, painter, photographer and sculptor Salvador Dalí (1904–89) forged a distinctive approach to dreamlike imagery in his work, a practice buoyed by his bombastic public persona.
Although after moving to Paris in 1929 he collaborated with Surrealists, including Spanish director Luis Buñuel on the film Un Chien Andalou (1929), Dalí was more interested in taking his own route in referencing the style of Old Masters in otherworldly work that was steeped in symbolism. Eggs, eyes, crutches, keys and other recurring motifs reflected on how creativity could open gateways to the unconscious. Now-iconic images, like the dripping clocks in the famed painting The Persistence of Memory (1931) and the Lobster Telephone (1936), a Surrealist object commissioned by British poet and arts patron Edward James, played with expectations for reality and hinted at the subversive thoughts of the psyche.
Dalí brought that same unconventional spirit to his printmaking, which he mainly engaged with between the 1930s and 1970s. His experiments included using a 15th-century musket to fire bullets of printer’s ink at lithography stones, leaving chaotic splatters. He employed a rhinoceros horn filled with bread soaked in ink to produce sloshes on the stones as well as materials such as sea urchins, gravel and eggs, their unpredictable patterns giving the resulting prints a performative feel.
While many of his etchings, engravings, lithographs and woodcuts were stand-alone works of art, he also regularly partnered with publishers on books. For a 1946 edition of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote De La Mancha, Dalí created drawings and watercolors with the Spanish hero tilting at chimerical windmills and riding a horse formed from a tangle of frenetic lines. For a 1969 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, he made 12 vibrant heliogravures, with the Persistence of Memory clock making an unearthly appearance at the Mad Tea-Party. Dalí’s illustrations gave the recipes for gargantuan towers and chickens splayed like sacrifices in the 1973 Les Dîners de Gala — named for his wife and muse, Gala — a hedonistic eroticism.
These publications brought Dalí’s hypnagogic imagery to a broader audience, yet his later habit of presigning blank paper for his prints led to rampant forgeries in the 1980s and ’90s. Still, this recognition of the power of marketing his work widely while maintaining a distinct vision has paved the way for contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, who similarly merge the uncanny with the commercial.
On 1stDibs, browse a collection of Salvador Dalí prints, including figurative prints, nude prints and other works on paper.
$1,533
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)- La Reine Iseult et sa fille - drypoint etching - 1970
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
Color drypoint etching on BFK Rives paper, edited in 1970. Limited edition, numbered XVII/XXV in lower left corner. Hand signed by artist in pencil in the lower right corner. Plate ...
Drypoint, Etching
Salvador Dalí -- One's Identity
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali One's Identity from the “Cycles of Life”, 1979 Photolithographs and etching in colors on Arches paper Image size: 30.5 × 30.5 cm Framed size: 64.5 × 63 x 4 cm Ha...
Etching, Photo-lithograph
$6,800
Salvador Dalí -- The Blood of Yin and Yang from Conquest of the Cosmos II
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí The Blood of Yin and Yang from Conquest of the Cosmos II, 1975 Lithographic in colors with drypoint on BFK Rives. Hand signed lower right Numbered XXVII / CLXXXXV S...
Drypoint, Lithograph
The Hippies The Pagoda
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Hippies The Pagoda MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: XLV/C MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 26.5" YEAR: 1969 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Exce...
Etching
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Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
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Salvador Dali, Don Quixote, The Golden Age, Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Don Quichotte, L'age d'or (Don Quixote, The Golden Age), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (S...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Gala, My Sistine Madonna, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Gala, ma Madonna sistine (Gala, My Sistine Madonna), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selec...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Attack of the Windmills, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Attaque des Moulins (Attack of the Windmills), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected Pa...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Don Quixote with the Exploding Head, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Don Quichotte a la tete qui eclate (Don Quixote with the Exploding Head), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichott...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, The Wine Skins, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Les Outres du Vin (The Wine Skins), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected Pages of Don ...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Don Quixote, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Don Quixote (Don Quixote), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected Pages of Don Quixote o...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Don Quixote Overwhelmed, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Don Quichotte accable (Don Quixote Overwhelmed), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected ...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Atomic Era, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Ere Atomique (Atomic Era), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected Pages of Don Quixote o...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Don Quixote Reading in His Room, Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Don Quichotte en lecteur dans sa chambre (Don Quixote Reading in His Room), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quicho...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Reverie of Don Quixote, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Reverie de Don Quichotte (Reverie of Don Quixote), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selecte...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, The Visions, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Les Chimeres (The Visions), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected Pages of Don Quixote ...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, The Dawn, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled L'aurore (The Dawn), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected Pages of Don Quixote of La M...
Lithograph
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Salvador Dali, Apparition of Dulcinea, from Don Quichotte de la Manche, 1957
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Apparition de Dulcinee (Apparition of Dulcinea), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected ...
Lithograph
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
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Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Salvador Dali, Untitled, from The Three-Cornered Hat, 1958
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...
Engraving