Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Don Quixote Seated (prestige scale)
Bronze with Brown patina
71×37.5×31.5 cm
Prestige Edition of 9 Signed “Dali” in cast
P.E. casts of the 71 x 37,5 x 31,5 cm edition are part of the permanent
collections of the San Diego Museum of Art (California), and of the Lowe Art
Museum of Miami. Dali was fascinated by the character created by Cervantes.
He painted the subject many times, and produced illustrations for this
literary masterpiece for three editions in 1946, 1957 and 1964. Dali felt
like a Don Quixote himself, as he too, believed in the existence of his
world of dreams. It is very possible that Don Quixote Seated represents Dali
himself, as his arm reaches out and explains to us his paranoid-critical
method that rests on his lap. About Cervantes’ Don Quixote, the artist
himself commented, “Being a Spaniard, and a realist, Don Quixote had no need
for an Aladdin’s lamp. Picking an acorn from an oak was enough for him to
bring our Golden Age back to life”.