Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Robert Descharnes.

In this design for a painted ceiling pendentive, Dalí has skilfully manipulated the shape of the triangular segment of a spherical surface in order to simultaneously create a homage to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedrea. In the early 1960s Dalí executed 26 works illustrating Cervantes’ El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. Extremely varied in its graphic style and entrancing with its phantasmagorical imagery, Dalí’s later 1965 series of illustrations for Don Quijote de la Mancha confirms the artist’s fascination for one of the most influential works of Spanish literature. Indeed, Dalí had already illustrated the novel in 1946 for Random House, and returned to the theme again in 1957 in a series of lithographs, published by Joseph Forêt in [Pages choisies de] Don Quichotte de la Manche.