Salvador Dalí: The Golden Age - Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1957
Salvador Dalí: The Golden Age - Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1957
Salvador Dalí: The Golden Age - Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1957
Salvador Dalí: The Golden Age - Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1957
Salvador Dalí: The Golden Age - Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1957
Salvador Dalí: The Golden Age - Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1957
Salvador Dalí: The Golden Age - Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1957

Salvador Dalí: The Golden Age - Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1957

This vividly colored lithograph by Salvador Dalí from 1956/57 depicts Don Quixote as a timeless figure poised between myth and vision. The print combines narrative power with a free, experimental visual language, creating a compelling, almost epic effect. As a hand-signed example from a limited edition, the work possesses significant art historical importance and lasting collector value.

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Salvador Dali

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Original color lithograph - lithograph

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Image description

The scene opens wide into the landscape: In the foreground, Don Quixote rises with raised arm and lance, sketched yet powerfully rendered. Around him unfolds a vast space with scattered figures, riders, and movements that stretch across hills, plains, and paths. Black lines alternate with transparent fields of color in blue, ochre, and earthy tones, punctuated by bold accents. The composition appears open and multi-layered, as if the story were unfolding simultaneously in several locations. Light, line, and color create an atmosphere somewhere between dream, memory, and narrated time.

Artistic context

The work was created in connection with Dalí's extensive study of Cervantes'Don Quixote de la ManchaIn the 1950s, Dalí increasingly combined his surrealist imagery with classical literary themes and an experimental graphic technique. Color lithography allowed him a free interplay of drawing, ink application, and chance, lending this work its unique vibrancy. Characteristic is the dissolution of fixed forms in favor of a fragmented, dynamic pictorial space. Its inclusion in the catalogue raisonné by Michler and Löpsinger, its clear limitation, and its handwritten signature underscore the significance of this print within Dalí's graphic oeuvre and make it an important collector's item of the post-war period.

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) is considered one of the most famous, flamboyant, and consistent representatives of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, he displayed exceptional drawing talent from an early age and studied at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Even at a young age, he combined technical virtuosity with a pronounced penchant for provocation, staging, and self-stylization—qualities that made him world-famous not only as an artist but also as a public figure.

In the 1920s, Dalí joined the Surrealist movement around André Breton in Paris. His work draws on psychoanalytic theories, particularly the writings of Sigmund Freud, as well as on personal obsessions, anxieties, and desires. Recurring themes include time and transience, sexuality, death, power, religion, and identity. Despite the often irrational subject matter, Dalí's works are characterized by an exceptionally precise, almost photorealistic painting style—a deliberate contrast between form and content.

Gala, his muse, wife, and manager, played a central role in Dalí's life and art, appearing in numerous works as an ideal figure, projection, and symbol. After World War II, Dalí increasingly turned to religious, scientific, and mythological themes, integrating influences from physics, atomic theory, and Renaissance art into his work.

Besides paintings, Dalí created an extensive body of graphic work, sculptures, stage designs, films, jewelry designs, and literary texts. His graphic works made his visual world accessible to a wider international audience and contributed significantly to his global fame.

Salvador Dalí understood art as a radical expression of inner realities – as a play between control and madness, precision and dream. His work remains iconic, instantly recognizable, and of unbroken fascination. As a boundary-crosser between genius, provocateur, and perfect craftsman, Dalí created an oeuvre that profoundly influenced Surrealism and continues to captivate collectors, art lovers, and viewers worldwide.