Random House contacted Salvador Dalí to make a series of illustrations for Alice in Wonderland in 1960. Who better than the painter of surrealism, who has been able through his pictorial art to take us to other worlds parallel to this one with his special and enigmatic gaze.
There was a very limited edition which was published in its day and which Dalí personalized with his own signature on each copy. These copies are in the hands of art and book collectors who very from time to time make it the central axis of it. Anyway, for the 150th anniversary of the Alice in Wonderland edition it is available on Amazon and has been published by Princeton University Press.
The Deluxe Edition of Alice in Wonderland is characterized by have an introduction explaining the connection between Dali and Carrol by Mark Burstein, president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, and mathematician Thomas Banchoff. It is the latter that shows the mathematics that can be found in Dalí's work and illustrations.
We would be facing an illustration by Dalí that is distinguished from his works more dedicated to photorealismFor this reason, this book distinguishes itself from that type of art that illustrated the genius of surrealism.
A mixture of tempera and black ink, it has a style that could be more reminiscent of other painters. Although it does not come close to Pablo Picasso's cubism, it does tend to show the decks with flat colors that fill the forms and silhouettes that evade in a special perspective; with even washes in which it gets rid of the highest concentration of pigments.
You have the option of buy this special edition from Alice in Wonderland from amazon.