$200
Salvador Dali lithograph "Don Quixote" in sepia tones; double matted with gilded frame; signed to bottom right corner and numbered "328/500" to bottom left corner; measures approximately 26-3/4" x 20-3/4" with frame and has a sight image of approximately 19-1/2" x 13-3/4"; in Excellent condition. Salvador Dali was no stranger to literary illustration, from his heliogravures for "Alice in Wonderland" to his drawings for Montaigne’s essays. 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. Scrumptiously surrealist, Dali’s drawings, a combination of black-and-white sketches and watercolors, are the best visual take on the Cervantes classic since Spanish graphic design pioneer Roc Riera Rojas’s 1969 illustrations.
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2015-10-24
