Salvador Dali Don Quixote Painting

Don quixote is a wonderful black and white etching on paper realized by the catalan surrealist artist salvador dali in 1966. This piece has been sold original etching in sepia ink on thick wove paper by salvador dali from the portfolio five spanish portraits. A painting by picasso and now the story of the appearance of the most famous image of the main characters of the novel.
salvador dali don quixote painting

From the series of five etchings cinq portraits espagnols five spanish portraits werbungs und commerz union astalt atelier rigal.

Salvador dali don quixote painting. Salvador dali signed original etching aquatint the dreamer don quixote sn coa. On august 10 1955 pablo picasso s friend and biographer pierre daix came to the artists villa in cannes with a business proposal. Don quixote and the windmills was created in 1945 by salvador dali in surrealism style. Although he was best known as a painter dali did not shy away from other fields or from working together with other artists of the time.

Signed on plate on lower right margin. Don quixote and sancho panza. Make offer salvador dali don quixote spanish original etching signed in plate 1960s salvador dali. Don quixote art by salvador dali framed with authentication.

Nearly two decades later when dali received a commission to create a suite of prints inspired by the icons of spanish culture he turned again to this classic tale. Make offer don quixote art by salvador dali framed with authentication. Inferno 4 the limbos original signed etching divine comedy 37000. But arguably his most elegant take on a literary classic comes from this rare 1946 edition of don quixote de la mancha public library by miguel de cervantes.

He was a great painter who was sometimes recognized more for his eccentricities than for his artistic work. Salvador dali was born in figueres in the catalan province of gerona on may 11 1904. Salvador dali was no stranger to literary illustration from his heliogravures for alice in wonderland to his drawings for montaignes essays. Dali illustrated a 1946 edition of the novel which he filled with 38 unique drawings of don quixote and sancho panzas horseback adventures across spain.

The small figure of sancho panza is in the background lower left. This lithographic print was made from an original creative reproduction of the salvador dali masterpiece don quixote currently residing in the private collection. The image is of don quixote in armor mounted on a horse.