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Salvador Dali 1904 - 1989.
Eugenio Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí was born in
Catalonia, Spain. He was born into a middle
class family and studied at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Madrid. He joined the Surrealists in
1929 and his talent for self-publicity soon made
him the most famous member of the movement.
From 1929 to 1937 he produced the paintings that
made him the world's best-known Surrealist
artist. He described his paintings as
"hand-painted dream photographs". He is also
quoted as saying "... There is only one
difference between a madman and me - The madman
thinks he is sane - I know I am mad ..."
Dalí was with out doubt, a genius. At the age of
14 exhibit his works to critics. His first solo
exhibition was held in 1925. Perhaps the most
famous of his painting is "The Persistence of
Memory" (1931), in which limp, melting watches
rest in an eerily calm landscape.
A major retrospective of his work opened in 1941
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and
traveled throughout the United States. From 1950
- 1970 he painted many religious works.
Towards the end of his life Dali lived in the
tower of his own Museum, where he died in
January 1939 of a heart attack.
| Salvador Dali
Soft Watch
65 x 80cm [25.5 x 31.4"]
$295 inc shipping
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