The illustrated suite Faust includes 21 Engravings (11 hors texts and 10 vignettes), Published by Etienne Denis Braillard, Geneva. Each edition is numbered on a page at the beginning or the end of the book indicating the specific number of each book and series. The certificate of authenticity is proof of this number. The work is not numbered.

The text of two plays written by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (from 1808 and 1832) tells the story of Faust, a character inspired by Johann Georg Faust, a 16th century German alchemist, already a hero of a folk tale.

Goethe stated that the first part of Faust was the work of "a being troubled by passion, which can obscure the spirit of man." The second part reveals a world less subject to passion. In Faust II, Goethe wrote a Prologue that poses the obsessing question of the salvation of the soul. The work is thus a parable of suffering humanity, torn between thought and action.

Reference: “The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali” by Albert Field.
Ref. 69-1 – E- pages 50-51. Published by The Salvador Dali Archives.