Plate (facing page 196) 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 multiple disembodied hands interacting with abstract forms and objects. In the foreground, a pile of fur-like material holds bones, with a fork and a stick nearby.