Salvador Dalí

SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueres, Girona, 1904 - 1989).
Untitled, 1977.
Marker pen on page of the book "Dalí et les poetes".
Signed, dated and dedicated.
Measurements: 31 x 47,5 cm.

Dalí's spiral representation of Don Quixote will be one of the most recurrent motifs in his work: a whirlpool unable to distinguish dream from reality. Here it occupies the flyleaves of a copy of "Dalí et les poetes, collection les yeux fertiles" (a collection of Dalí's illustrations for different poets). The fascination that Dalí felt for Don Quixote de la Mancha was materialized in the many drawings, sketches, engravings and sculptures that the surrealist genius dedicated to Cervantes' character. In 1945, Salvador Dalí, 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", made 38 drawings and watercolors to illustrate the first part of Cervantes' text.

Salvador Dalí was one of the leading exponents of the surrealist movement. His work greatly influenced the course of surrealism during the twenties and thirties, being acclaimed as the creator of the paranoiac-critical method, an essential combination of the real with the imaginary. Most of his production is gathered in the Dalí Theater-Museum in Figueras, followed by the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida), the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades (California), the Espace Dalí in Montmartre (Paris) or the Dalí Universe in London.