Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Impossible Dream

Salvador Dali, The Impossible Dream
from Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha

Etching + Aquatint + Color from Original sketches
from an edition of 125 for Grafos Verlag

Numbered bottom left in pencil: " G 52 / 125 "
Signed in pencil bottom right: "Dali"

G stands for Grafos Verlag , Ärzte und Sammlerkreis,
( Medics and Collectors Circle )
Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein

77 x 57 cm on Velin d'Arches watermarked paper,
with the Blind-Stamp of the editor:
" DALART N.V. /Copyright 1981

Editor: Levine & Levine for DALART N.V.
Printed at Porter - Wiener Atelier, New York

The story of Don Quixote (written by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605–1615)
is about the impoverished nobleman Alonso Quijano. Driven mad by his
e xcessive reading of chivalric romances, he sets out as the knight-errant
"Don Quixote" to fight evil.
“For neither good nor evil can last forever; and so it follows that, since
evil has lasted a long time, good must now be within reach.”
Dali tackled this story in his unmistakable surrealist style, creating his
very last major graphic cycle in 1980, comprising 15 etchings plus
aquatint and color. A final masterpiece from the genius of the century.

Low edition 52/ 125 on velin Arches for Grafos Verlag
The Dali Print Price Guide values " The Impossible Dream" 3x higher
as the other 14 prints of this series. Very scarce and rarely offered as
"The Impossible Dream" represents the climax of the Don Quixote story.
The hero has overcome all his adventures and returns home.

Dali is in the collection of all major museums worldwide:
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York ,
Centre Pompidou - France,
Tate Gallery – London,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - New York etc.


This print is listed in:

Albert Field The Official Catalog of the Graphic
Works of Salvador Dali, authorized by Dali,
80 - 1 , page 144
Bruce Hochman Print Price Guide to the Graphic Works
of Salvador Dali 2012 edition page 156- 158

This is a beautiful, authentic and rare piece -
a masterpiece of Surrealism!

This print is NOT in perfect condition some creases in
the paper, hardly noticeable once behind glass,
very slightly wavy

Pictures are part of the description
Shipped insured Track & Trace;