ART inspired by BOOKS

Pablo PICASSO’s 1955 

India ink sketch of 
DON QUIXOTE and Sancho Panza
in the August 18–24 issue of the 

French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises 
in celebration of the 350th anniversary 

of the first part of Cervantes’s 

DON QUIXOTE.

 

 (Cover art by Gustave Doré)

Miguel CERVANTES, perhaps the only 

writer ever captured by pirates, 

wrote the epic novel

THE INGENIOUS NOBLEMAN 

MISTER QUIXOTE 

OF LA MANCHA

(EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA).

Part I published 1605 - Part II 1615, it

is considered the most influential work

of literature in the entire Spanish canon

and has spawned the adjective “quixotic”

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British artist Sir John EVERETT Millais 

painted OPHELIA singing before she drowns. 

Oil on canvas 1851- 1852. 
Inspired by Shakespeare’s play, HAMLET. 

 

William SHAKESPEARE’s

THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET,

 PRINCE OF DENMARK,

written between 1599 and 1602 and

derived from the legend of Amleth.

It is his longest and most influential 

work; who among us has not asked

at some point in our life

“Etre ou ne pas être?”

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Salvador DALI’s 
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE 
was based on 

Lewis Carroll’s 
ALICE IN WONDERLAND. 
One of twelve heliogravures, 
one for each chapter of the
book published by 
Maecenas Press - 
Random House, 
New York in 1969.

In 1862 Charles Dodgson, an Oxford

mathematician with a stammer,

created a story about a little girl

tumbling down a rabbit hole 

under the pen name Lewis Carroll:

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.

Insipid Alice is a bit of a bore but

who doesn’t love the Mad Hatter,

the Queen of Hearts,

the Cheshire cat?

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