DALÍ, Salvador.

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Hidden Faces. First edition, limited issue, number 13 of 100 copies signed by Dali of Chevalier's famous translation of the surrealist's only novel. This copy includes the artist's previously unpublished 20-page Postface, also numbered 13, loosely inserted as issued, and a signed certificate from the publishing house authenticating Dali's signature, dated 18th May 1994. Written in French in the autumn of 1943, Hidden Faces explores the lives and loves of a group of aristocrats. It was first published in Chevalier's English version in 1944, after the translator spent several weeks with Dalí on the estate of the Marquis de Cuevas in Franconia, translating directly as the artist wrote. The original French appeared in print with the title Visages cachés in 1973. A professor of French literature at the University of California, Chevalier (1901-1985) is also known for his friendship with the atom bomb pioneer Robert Oppenheimer, and for serving as an official translator at the Nuremberg trials of 1945.

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