The British book and art dealer Bernard Shapero hopes that a series of artworks about the Bible, which Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí made to mark the State of Israel’s 25th anniversary and which comes with a seven-figure asking price in pounds, will find its way to the Jewish state.

“What we would love it to do would be for someone to buy it and give it to the State of Israel,” Shapero told JNS from Miami, where his gallery is showing works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder and others at the Art Basel fair.

“Obviously, that would be to go in the museum of modern art in Tel Aviv or the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. That, for us, would be amazing,” he said, of the 1973 series, “The 12 Tribes of Israel.” (Dalí also made a series for the 20th anniversary of Israel’s foundin

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