Salvador Dali
 

Man approached me with the question, what it is.
And I can not tell him.
Not completely understood, it is pictures or prints (? )
Signed and numbered by hand in pencil .
If my interpretation is correct obtained as follows:

" Original certificate
Salvador Dali
Funny song Pantagruel
25 interpretation of Salvador Dali
author Rabelais "
I ask to speak on the subject who knows what .
Thank you.

In fact I can not tell, I can only pobukvoedstvovat for parts of the translation:

songe (fr) - a dream, a dream, a dream - not to be confused with the English song

drolatique - really funny, cool

Added after 16 minutes
Full translation of the title page:


The original text

Salvador Dali


Naughty dreams of Pantagruel


25 interpretations

Salvador Dali

based on Rabelais

Type of lithography, 20th out of 50.

Thank you all.
I have to deal with it himself.

«Comic songs Pantagruel"
 
As for the characters in the series' comic song Pantagruel ", all, or almost all of them are taken from the same book, published by a certain Richard Breton in 1565. The text in the book is virtually absent, its main contents are 120 engravings. Dali borrowed some characters literally, some modified.
Interestingly, in the circulation of the book in 1565 was very small and it almost immediately became extremely rare. The next edition of the engravings published in XIX century. In 1823, the "comic songs Pantagruel 'published as Volume IX works of Rabelais. Then in 1869, they were released in a single volume.

[COLOR="Green"] 1. A series of drawings of Dali Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel was published in 1973.
2. Figures in the series stylistically different from other collections of Dali paintings coming out in 1950 - 1970-s and the most similar to a series of Les Chants de Maldoror, Salvador Dalí created in 1934.
3. Stories of almost all drawings Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel were taken from the same book of Dali, first released, according to the output, in 1565.[/CO