Salvador Dalí - Paternoster / Padrenuestro - 1966-1966

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)

PATER NOSTER

Rizzoli Editore, Milan, 1966. First edition.

Magnificent and scarce original edition published in 1966 by Rizzoli Editore (Milan), conceived entirely by Salvador Dalí at one of the moments of greatest creative maturity of his artistic production. Pater Noster constitutes one of the most singular editorial works by the artist, in which he fuses spirituality, Christian symbolism, and surrealist language in a project of extraordinary plastic and editorial quality.

The large-format volume presents the text of the Lord’s Prayer in numerous languages—including Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese—accompanied by a series of striking compositions conceived by Dalí in 1966. The illustrations, reproduced with great chromatic fidelity on high-quality paper, display the unmistakable aesthetics of the master from Cadaqués, combining watercolor, drawing, and gestural graphics with a deep symbolic and religious content.

The elegant blue silk publisher’s binding, adorned on the cover with the golden typography designed by Dalí himself and dated 1966, makes the work a magnificent twentieth-century artist’s book. Inside, the characteristic signatures and dates reproduced in the original edition are also present.

This publication was issued in a limited edition, and today it is an increasingly difficult work to find complete and in good condition, especially outside specialized bookstores.

Condition: Good overall. Clean and complete interior, with the illustrations perfectly preserved and colors vivid. Original binding firm, showing only mild wear and small signs of use on the cover, typical of the passage of time.

Bibliography

* Michel & Löpsinger, Salvador Dalí Catalogue Raisonné of Prints, no. 1599.

A carefully crafted bibliophile edition that brings together art, literature, and spirituality in one of the most original publications produced by Salvador Dalí during the 1960s, intended for both collectors of the artist’s work and lovers of illustrated books and luxury editions of the twentieth century.