Salvador Dalí
(Spanish, 1904-1989)
Cervantes from The Five Spanish Immortals, 1965
color etching
signed and numbered in pencil lower margin
edition of 125
6 7/8" x 4 15/16"

Provenance:
London Grafica Arts, London, England (label verso)
The Ira Simon Collection, Chicago, Illinois

Catalog Note:
In the early 1960s, a Swiss publisher commissioned Dalí to create a collection of prints that celebrated five real and imagined figures who shaped the cultural imagination of Spain. The collection was entitled The Five Spanish Immortals. It featured Cervantes, Europe's first great novelist and his beloved character, the aging knight errant, Don Quixote. Respects were also paid to the following: El Cid, the fabled Spanish hero; El Greco, Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance; and Velazquez, Spanish painter and leading artist in the court of King Phillip IV of Spain and Portugal.

Frame (with glass): 23 7/8"h x 20 3/8"w x 3/4"d
Not examined out of frame. Overall good condition.