Dali Tarot

The Dali Tarot has an origin story as unusual as the artwork itself. According to legend, film producer Albert Broccoli commissioned Salvador Dalí to create a tarot deck as a prop for the James Bond film Live and Let Die. Dalí, whose wife Gala had long encouraged his interest in mysticism, threw himself into the project — and when the contractual arrangement fell through, he kept going anyway. The completed work was published in a limited art edition in 1984, making Dalí the first celebrated painter to create an entirely new set of tarot cards.

Drawing on Western art history from antiquity through the modern era — including some of his own paintings — Dalí combined his deep knowledge of the arcane with his characteristic wit. The result is a surrealist tour through centuries of European art, and TASCHEN has brought all 78 cards back into print with a booklet by tarot author Johannes Fiebig.