Gastronomy 2021 Catalogue

16 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s G a s t r o n o m y 2 0 2 1 “Painting Is An Infinitely Minute Part Of My Personality” 18. DALÍ, Salvador. Les Dîners de Gala. New York, 1973. Thick folio (9 by 12 inches), original color-printed pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $800. Click for more info First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife Gala. “When six years old I wanted to be a cook.” At age 68, Dalí fulfilled that ambition in this book. His careful selection of menus and recipes, “with its precepts and its illustrations, is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of Taste.” Gala was Dalí’s wife and muse. With color plates and in-text photographs and illustrations on nearly every page. Preceded in 1971 by a portfolio of 12 colored lithographs under the same title, each reproduced in this enlarged edition. Text in English. A fine copy.