Július Jakoby (1903 – 1985) is one of the most important Slovak painters of the second half of the 20th century. He is a significant and essentially lone figure of Slovak fine art. The artist’s work grew in the avant-garde environment of 1920’s Košice, and unquestionably contributed to the creation of the tradition of a modern painting in Košice in the 20th century. With his expressive painting Július Jakoby - by almost exclusively focusing on figurative painting - inclined to new figurative values of European painting. The works of Július Jakoby are in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, National Galleries in Prague and Budapest, other Slovak galleries and museums, and in many private collections. However, they are especially represented in the collections of the Gallery of Eastern Slovakia in Košice, which has presented the artist’s work in a permanent exhibition since 1991. The Don Quixote work originated in the 60’s when Jakoby was reaching his artistic maturity. It expressively demonstrates the characteristic values of the artist’s paintings – irony, exaggeration, explosive colours, and the sense of the grotesque. The FDC motif is based on A Woman with a Yellow Dog (1964), and FDC cancellation depicts a fragment of his self-portrait from 1948. PhDr. Mária Kostičová