Null SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueres, Girona, 1904 - 1989).

Untitled. 1963.
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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.

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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.

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SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989). "The seven arts", 1980. Six porcelain plates decorated by Dalí. Titled and signed on the back. Certificates on the back. Measurements: 25,5 cm (diameter). Six plates of Salvador Dali's work, titled and signed. Representation on each plate of the 7 Arts according to Salvador Dalí: Painting, Architecture, Music, Poetry, Dance, Sculpture and Theater. With certificate of authenticity engraved on the back of an authorized print run of 5,000 collections. Scenes printed on the plate. Made in white Bidasoa ceramic with golden rim, mark on the base. During his early years, Dalí discovered contemporary painting during a family visit to Cadaqués, where he met the family of Ramon Pichot, an artist who regularly traveled to Paris. Following Pichot's advice, Dalí began to study painting with Juan Núñez. In 1922, Dalí stayed at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to begin studying Fine Arts at the San Fernando Academy. However, before his final exams in 1926, he was expelled for claiming that there was no one there fit to examine him. That same year Dalí traveled to Paris for the first time. There he met Picasso, and established some formal characteristics that would become distinctive of all his work from then on. During this period, Dalí held regular exhibitions in both Barcelona and Paris, and joined the surrealist group based in the Parisian neighborhood of Montparnasse. The painter landed in America in 1934, thanks to art dealer Julian Levy. As a result of his first individual exhibition in New York, his international projection was definitively consolidated, and since then he has been showing his work and giving lectures all over the world. Most of his production is gathered in the Dalí Theatre-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. Certificates on the reverse side.