What is the retail value of a complete set of Salvador Dali's Divine Comedy woodcuts?

Question

This is a complete set of 100 woodcut prints depicting Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. My set is the German edition.

Answer 1

Value is always a question that is one of the hardest to answer. In the end, value is determined by the market and what the market is willing to pay for an item. Some dealers have said that the Divine comedy has little value and others state that is has a high value. My opinion is that value is often dependent on the market demand and where you are seeing the price ( i.e. ebay, gallery, auction house, consignment shop, garage sale, etc...). My discussion of value really has nothing to do with whether I think the prices are low or high but simply to show some facts.

The Divine Comedy suite has been and is sold in major auction houses around the world. For example, Sotheby's and other auction houses have sold the set in the sales listed below. The sales listed below are just to give actual examples of actual sets selling. The Divine Comedy suites have sold 100's of times in auction, perhaps many hundred's of times and three sales results and one appraisal can't and shouldn't be used to calculate an average value.

Sotheby’s SALE N08193, 28 Apr 06, lot 99, 10-15k estimate, 12K with buyer's premium.

Sotheby’s SALE N08123, 28 Oct 05, lot 174, 10-12k estimate, 16,800 with buyer's premium.

European auction - 2002 - $3,600 w/o premium

I have included photographs of an appraisal from one of the world's leading Dali appraisers that valued a divine comedy set in 2001 at $60,000

Answer 2

i dunno but it is an interesting question...