Salvador Dali Tarot Cards 1984 Universal Deck & Accompanying Book Rachel Pollack

Vintage tarot cards designed by Salvador Dali. This is the original deck published in Spain 1984. Included is the Rachel Pollack book explaining each card. Truly wonderful Dali collages, paintings which reach far into art history for imagery and meaning. Complete, gold edged deck and partner book in very good condition although the boxes and book cover show wear. Dalí, inspired by his wife and muse, Gala, created 78 peculiar, exquisite, and mystifying tarot cards that were distributed as a limited art edition in 1984. These were purchased in Barcelona in the mid 80’s by my Mom who was a very good tarot card reader. It’s fitting that the first Major Arcana card in the deck, the Magician, features our beguiling artist himself, joined by paraphernalia from some of his best-known works (i.e., a melting clock from The Persistence of Memory). This card is a call to arms to embrace individuality and take control of one’s own life. The blue background signifies openness, and the break in the picture plane represents going beyond what is believed to be possible.   An ode to female power and perseverance, the Empress card featured the likeness of the formidable Gala Dalí (the wife of the artist), while its background is lifted from Delacroix’s explosive 1826 painting Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi. Original Dali Universal Tarot Cards Deck Spain Rare Find. Mystical. Art history.