El Cid Original Etching by Salvador Dali in San Francisco, California For Sale

Original etching in sepia ink on thick wove paper by Salvadore Dali from the portfolio Five Spanish Portraits. The image is of El Cid in armor mounted on a horse. Signed in the plate upper left. This is catalogued as 149 in Michler and Lopsinger, Dali: Catalogue Raisonne of Etchings and Mixed Media Prints, xxxx. (The color of the ink in the framed photo is representative of the actual etching.) The first printing in xxxx included 180 signed and numbered impressions on various papers and inks. This impression, also from xxxx, was for the Collector's Guild. The second edition totalled some 1,900 impressions, according to Michler and Lopsinger's catalogue. Dali signed his name in the plate for this second, restrike printing to distinguish it from the first printing. Second editions can also be called restrikes. Framed in a new, distressed-style black frame with silver highlights. Double-matted in tan, acid-free matting. Covered in glass. Framed size is 24-1/4 inches H x 20-1/4 inches W (61.6 cm x 51.4 cm). See closeup photos and more details at: http://www.jdsmithfineart.com/dali_etching_elcid_main.html.