Salvador Dalí

SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueres, Girona, 1904 - 1989).
Untitled. 1963.
Ink drawing on paper (book page).
Signed, dated and dedicated by hand.
The book is a collection of interviews by the journalist Manuel Del Arco. "Dalí in the Nude". Ed. José Yanes. Barcelona, 1952.
Provenance: Rafael Gorgot Ribas Collection. Subsequently Swann Auction Galleries, lot. 535.
Size: 24 x 34 cm (drawing).
In this original double-page drawing, Dalí returns to the theme that fascinated him so much throughout his life. Salvador Dalí's fascination for Don Quixote was materialised in the many drawings, sketches, engravings and sculptures that the surrealist genius dedicated to Cervantes' character. In 1945, attracted by the fervent personality of the Ingenious Hidalgo and influenced by the advice of his father, who had assured him that "Don Quixote was a work in which the faculties could easily excel", he produced 38 drawings and watercolours to illustrate the first part of Cervantes' text. This original copy, now kept at the Dalí Theatre-Museum, narrated the exploits that Miguel de Cervantes wrote in 1605, which gave rise to the modern novel that still tops the list of the best literary works in history.