Market Of Verona by Paul Signac 1909
It’s Romeo and Juliet of course. And the purgatory might not actually be Act V of the play, The poem is a case of alternative facts What if Romeo and Juliet had escaped death in the crypt? What if the purgatory is the quotidian sour years of their marriage exiled in Mantua?
In 1975, Salvador Dali the Spanish surrealist illustrated a limited (only 999 copies were published) edition of Romeo & Juliet that featured ten lithographs. It was published by Rizzoli and came in a red silk slipcase.
Here are three of them. Lockport Street Gallery has copies of the whole set.
The featured image is a detail from Market Of Verona by Paul Signac
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