On the insistence of the Parisian publisher, Joseph Forêt, Dalí’s first lithographic work, Don Quixote de la Mancha appears, in which he revolutionises the lithographic technique. In the course of various happenings, he treats the litho stones with rhinoceros horns and arquebuses. Dalí’s book Les Cocus du Vieil art Moderne (Dalí on Modern Art: The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern Art) is published in Paris.

After a private audience with Pope Pius XII, Dalí concentrates on religious and mystical subjects (Illustration God, Time, Space, and the Pope, WVZ 667).