Don Quixote on Horseback with Lance Original Artwork

Don Quixote is depicted on a white horse, wielding a long lance, by Italian Illustrator Gianne Benvenuti. The work is painted in a dreamy, monochromatic white that blurs the distinction between true reality. The work is a perfect pairing of an artist's style and content.
The visual of the gangly knight on his bony horse is so striking that
his quest transcends ordinary reality; he strips away the tediousness of the everyday world to see it with wonder, devotion, and a higher, visionary purpose. Benvenuti's painting conveys this sense of another reality in the dreamy white-on-whites, as if Quixote were a world of his own.

Original illustration done by Benvenuti for the novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes, published in 1961. unsigned and unframed, production stamps on verso crediting Benvenuti. Title is written in Italian in pencil , board size 20.13 x 14.5