Salvador Dalí
Venus in Furs – The Egrets (Les Aigrettes),1969.
ML/Argillet #366; Fields # 68-6 N
Original hand-colored copper etching on archival paper.
Hand-signed and numbered at the lower margins.

Venus in Furs was a novel written by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose name is the inspiration and origin of the word “masochism.” It is a novel about a man whose chief pleasure was to be thrashed by a beautiful woman wearing nothing more than a fur coat. Needless to say, this was an intriguing subject matter for Dalí. © The Argillet Collection.

Venus in Furs Series: 20 original drypoint etchings with roulette, of which 16 are 15 x 11 inches, and 4 are vignettes. Published in 1969.
Edition size: 1-150 signed and numbered on Arches and 1-145 on Japanese paper. Vignettes etching edition size 1-100 signed and numbered on Japanese paper.

Salvador Dali, The Argillet Collection –  Off The Wall Gallery, Houston, Texas.