1960 Swedish Ballet Poster, "Don Quijote" by Marius Petipa at Folkparksteatern (Don Quixote)

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Date: 1960
Size: 27.5 x 39 inches
Artist: Nisse Skoog

About Don Quixote: According to our friends at Qikipedia, "The … Read more Date: 1960
Size: 27.5 x 39 inches
Artist: Nisse Skoog

About Don Quixote: According to our friends at Qikipedia, "The plot of Don Quixote revolves around the adventures of a member of the lowest nobility, a hidalgo from La Mancha named Alonso Quijano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits as his squire a simple farm labourer, Sancho Panza, who brings a unique, earthy wit to Don Quixote's lofty rhetoric. In the first part of the book, Don Quixote does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story meant for the annals of all time. However, as Salvador de Madariaga pointed out in his Guía del lector del Quijote (1972 [1926]), referring to "the Sanchification of Don Quixote and the Quixotization of Sancho", as "Sancho's spirit ascends from reality to illusion, Don Quixote's declines from illusion to reality".[

In very good condition with some margin wear and ready to frame. Please see photos.
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