Highlights of Bonhams & Butterfields $1.6 Million Fine Prints Auction

artwork: Salvador Dalí - La Divine Comédie, from Dante Alighieri, L'Enfer; La Purgatoire; Le Paradis, (M./L.1039-1138), 1959-63. - The complete portfolio, comprising 100 wood engravings, each signed, each sheet 13 x 10 3/8 in. - Sold for $134,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields.


LOS ANGELES, CA.- On May 3, 2011, Bonhams & Butterfields presented its $1.6-million Fine Prints auction, marked by strong surrealism sales: the exceptional $134,000 purchase of Salvador Dalí – La Divine Comédie, a complete signed portfolio of 100 color wood engravings from Dante Alighieri, L’Enfer, La Purgatoire, and Le Paradis, estimated at $50,000-70,000; and The Magic Flute, an After Marc Chagall, color lithograph on wove paper, estimated at $20,000-30,000 that sold for $42,700.

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