Plate (facing page 190) from Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror)

Salvador Dalí

1934

One from an illustrated book with forty-two photogravure and drypoints after celluloid engravings

Museum of Modern Art

A surrealist etching depicts a distorted, biomorphic figure on the right, with a dark, textured ground and a speckled sky. A thin, dark line extends from the figure towards a small, elongated shape on the left.