Linen paper sheet by Dulcinea del Toboso Artist Subirachs IV Centenary of Don Quixote.

"On the occasion of the IV Centenary of Don Quixote, the AFINSA Group has asked the sculptor J.M. Subirachs for a series of four lithographs, of which a print run of 300 copies has been made, numbered and hand-signed by the artist.

AFINSA Group reproduces the four images on thread paper in a special and unique strip for its clients, in a folder that contains the collection with the four titles: End of the First Part, Cervantes, Clavileño and Dulcinea.

AFINSA Group, through artistic expression, joins the celebration of the IV Centennial of Don Quixote

Madrid, 2005"

The item I would buy is the reproduction of Dulcinea as seen in the photo

Approximate size: 24 x 36cm

Dulcinea is an imagination that never appears in the pages of Don Quixote. As a good knight, Don Quixote is in love with a lady to whom he must offer his sacrifices and his victories. Cervantes ends the first chapter of Don Quixote with the introduction of Dulcinea: “And it was, it is believed, that in a place near his there was a very good-looking farm girl, with whom he was in love for a time, although, As is understood, she never knew or tasted it. Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, and it seemed appropriate to give her the title of lady of her thoughts; And looking for her name that would not differ too much from hers and that would draw her and lead her to that of princess and great lady, she came to call her Dulcinea del Toboso."

The artist cannot draw a farm girl as if it were a Venus, and he makes an undefined image, which only in Don Quixote's mind is the lady whom he adores as a princess.

SUBIRACHS

Born in Barcelona in 1927

Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi, Corresponding Member of the Hispanic Society of America of New York

Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat of Catalonia

Medal of the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters

Personnalité de l’Année, Paris, 1987

Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts from the Ministry of Education and Culture

Gold medal from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary in Seville, 2003