Salvador Dalí
Gallery of the Original Master

Salvador Dalí i Domčnech
May 11, 1904 - Jan 23, 1989

Birthplace: Figueras, Spain 

Educated: Municipal School of Drawing in Figueres, San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid

Residences: Figueres, Madrid, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Portlligat

Genre: The father of modern Surrealism

Salvador Dalí devoted himself to drawing and painting from a very early age, and in 1922 he commenced Fine Art studies in Madrid. Following his studies in Madrid, Dalí left for Paris and joined the Surrealist group of painters and sculptors. Some of the works that were to make him one of the greatest representatives of Surrealism – such as The Lugubrious Game and The Persistence of Memory (Soft Watches) – date from this period. In 1929 he met the young Russian girl Helena Diakonova, known under the nickname of Gala, who would from that time on become his model and girlfriend. Coinciding with the start of the WWII, Salvador Dalí and Gala settled for a few years in the United States. He wrote "The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí" and also worked for cinema, theatre, opera and ballet. In 1948 he went back to live in Europe, spending long periods at his home and workshop in Portlligat. Religion, history and science were increasingly to form the subject matter of his works during the 1950s and 1960s. These were the years in which he painted many of his best-known works, such as Christ of St. John of the Cross and Galatea of the Spheres. During the 1970s Salvador Dalí created and inaugurated the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, which houses a large collection of his works, from his earliest days and his Surrealist creations through to the works he produced in the last years of his life.

Posters & Art Prints

Salvador Dalí books

The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Diary of a Genius

Tarot Universal Dalí

Dalí: The Salvador Dalí Museum Collection

50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship

Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair