Don Quijote

An outstanding edition of Cervantes’ timeless work, featuring facsimile reproductions of the watercolours and drawings produced by Dalí, who was fascinated by the character of Don Quijote. Dalí’s unforgettable images, charged with fantasy, magic and wit, help to give the reader a fresh perspective on Cervantes’ tale. 

On the occasion of Dalí Year in 2003 and the 4th centenary of the creation of El Quijote, Artika and the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundationpresented a creative visualisation by a great artistic genius of the most important novels in literature. 

With his own unique way of seeing things, Dalí places Don Quijote in an extraordinary Dalinian world – Cervantes’ passages are enriched with the painter’s characteristic iconography, with precisely-explained features, architectural forms, figures, ants, pebbles and spiral forms, and these intense designs serve to revitalise the scenes in the novel. 

The volume, sewn by hand and with bound red velvet covers, include the prints illustrated by the Ampurdan artist and the complete text of the work just as it was published in the 17th century, together with annotations by the renowned philologist Martín de Riquer. 

In the Study Book, a number of specialists take us deep into the complex world Cervantes created, as well as examining and interpreting Dalí’s designs and compositions to give the reader an overview of the whole work. And since the Study Book is such a treasure, it is fitting that it should be concealed secretly inside a case lined in gold fabric. 

A unique work of art, published in the form of a limited edition of 998 numbered copies.