DALI, Salvador (1904-1989). Autograph manuscript signed ("Salvador Dali"), in French, to an unnamed recipient, n.p., n.d.
2 pages, 8vo (183 x 138 mm), on a small placemat, inkblotting, a few creases and light stains. 12 small pen surrealist sketches. Translated: "And it is precisely in the invisible anguishof the void, in these vast horizons filled with nothing...that Salvador Dali plunges and submerges his nails, his fingers, his hands, his wrists, his arms and his shoulders, so that hecauses the ecstatic soul to spring out through his mouthWe will think he is learning about the true anguish of the void of his love and his armshis saliva, his own backTo fall again off the precipice, into the void of ejaculation, to put it properly, which is nothing more than the very delicate mystery of which exstasy is made."12 ORIGINAL PEN SKETCHES BY DALI on the second page, depicting two human figures in costume, a bust profile of a woman, a Surrealist face, two bones, the capital of a column, a stylized chess pawn, three elaborate ladies hats, and a five-pointed star with a crescent moon.
Property from the Robert L. McKay Collection, North Tustin, California
