SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)

SALVADOR DALI Salvador Dali is best known for The Persistence of Memory, his painting of clocks melting in a landscape, the prolific Spanish Surrealist artist was born in 1904 in Figueres, Spain. He studied at an academy in Madrid before moving to Paris in the 1920s. There, he interacted with Magritte, Miro, and Picasso, and began his Surrealist phase. He painted The Persistence of Memory in 1931. He moved to New York in 1940. Dali, like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, designed for theater productions as early as 1927. Later, the extent of his work went beyond creating stage décor and costumes to providing the libretto for Bacchanale (1939) and Labyrinth (1941). A lifetime of relentless controversy and self-promotion, as well as an extraordinary body of paintings and sculpture, assured Dali of what he wanted — immortality, or at least enduring fame that transcends art.

ARTWORK

SALVADOR DALI
Saint Georges et le Dragon
ballpoint pen on paper
22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in.
SALVADOR DALI
Le Femme au Coussin
etching
15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.
SALVADOR DALI
Le Nu à la Jarretière
etching
15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.
SALVADOR DALI
Les Femmes-Fleurs au Piano
etching
15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.
SALVADOR DALI
Three Cloth Portfolios & Their Associated Table of Contents
three cloth portfolios and table of contents
SALVADOR DALI
Divine Comedy Purgatory Canto 32
color wood engraving on paper
13 x 10 1/2 in.
SALVADOR DALI
Divine Comedy Purgatory Canto 26
color wood engraving on paper
13 x 10 1/2 in.
SALVADOR DALI
Divine Comedy Purgatory Canto 22
color wood engraving on paper
13 x 10 1/2 in.
SALVADOR DALI
Divine Comedy Purgatory Canto 3
color wood engraving on paper
13 x 10 1/4 in.
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