

Farlese in 1981 and has remained in the same collection for the past 35 years. The auction house comments: "This remarkable suite was purchased from Dr. In a letter of provenance accompanying the lot, he explains how he met Dali at the Hotel Meurice in Paris and the artist signed each of the 100 prints. The Italian government commissioned Dali to produce the work in 1957 The set, which dates to the late 1960s, was originally owned by a Dr Antonio Farlese, who acquired them from a gallery in Merano, Italy. A set of 100 woodcut prints by Salvador Dali, illustrating Dante's Divine Comedy, realised $30,626 at RR Auction on October 12.
