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Salvador Dalí, in full Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech, was born May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Spain, and died on January 23, 1989. This Spanish surrealist painter and printmaker was known for his explorations of subconscious imagery.
As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí absorbed a number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical dexterity as a painter. It was not until the late 1920s that two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style. First, his discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery. Second, his affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to establish a “greater reality" of the human subconscious over reason. To evoke images from his subconscious mind, Dalí partook in self-induced hallucinatory states, a process he described as “paranoiac-critical".
Upon Dalí establishing this method, his painting style matured at an extraordinary rate. Thanks to Rene Magritte and Joan Miró, from 1929 to 1937, Dalí had produced the artworks that had earned him the title of the world's best-known Surrealist artist. He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational manner.
The famous artist dabbled in other media as well. Alongside Spanish director Luis Buñuel, Dalí made two Surrealist films—Un Chien Andalou (1928; An Andalusian Dog) and L'Âge d'Or (1930; The Golden Age)—that are similarly filled with grotesque but highly suggestive images. Dalí also wrote books; perhaps the most interesting and revealing being The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942-44).
By the late 1930s, Dalí switched to painting in a more academic style under the influence of the Renaissance painter Raphael. By doing so, he was consequently expelled from the Surrealist movement. Thereafter, he spent much of his time designing theatre sets, fashionable shop interiors, jewelry, as well as exhibiting his genius for flamboyant self-promotional stunts in the United States, where he lived from 1940 to 1955.
From 1950 to 1970, Dalí painted many works with religious themes, although he continued to explore erotic subjects, childhood memories, and themes surrounding his wife, Gala. Despite their technical accomplishments, Dalí's later paintings are not as highly regarded as his earlier works.
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The Rock from Our Historical Heritage
Salvador Dali
Print - 66 x 50.5 cm Print - 26 x 19.88 inch
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Pomme Dragon (Eve's Apple)
Salvador Dali
Print - 67 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 26.4 x 21.5 x 0 inch
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Picasso: A Ticket to Glory
Salvador Dali
Print - 67.5 x 51.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 26.6 x 20.3 x 0 inch
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Réminiscence Archéologique de l’Angélus de Millet
Salvador Dali
Print - 91 x 66 x 0.1 cm Print - 35.8 x 26 x 0 inch
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Le Creuset Philosophal - L'Alchimie des Philosophes
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.2 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch
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L'Ouroboros - L'Alchimie des Philosophes
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.2 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch
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Bonne Fortune et Fortune - from 'Les Amours Jaunes'
Salvador Dali
Print - 37.5 x 28 x 0.2 cm Print - 14.8 x 11 x 0.1 inch
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Pudentiane, from 'Les Amours Jaunes'
Salvador Dali
Print - 37.5 x 28.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 14.8 x 11.2 x 0 inch
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Adam et Eve from the Homage a Albrecht Durer Suite
Salvador Dali
Print - 74.9 x 55.9 cm Print - 29.5 x 22 inch
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La désintégration de la persistance de la mémoire
Salvador Dali
Print - 55 x 75 x 0.1 cm Print - 21.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
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Le Songe d’un Alchmiste ou l’Arbre de Vie
Salvador Dali
Print - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.5 cm Print - 30 x 22 x 0.2 inch
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Path to Wisdom from the Retrospective Suite
Salvador Dali
Print - 57.2 x 43.2 cm Print - 22.5 x 17 inch
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L'ange de Port Lligat (The Angel of Port Lligat)
Salvador Dali
Print - 54 x 74 x 0.1 cm Print - 21.3 x 29.1 x 0 inch
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Tancred's Choice from Marquis de Sade
Salvador Dali
Print - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Panorama: the Siege of Jerusalem from The Marquis de Sade
Salvador Dali
Print - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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The Face in the Windmill
Salvador Dali
Print - 64.1 x 97.2 x 0.5 cm Print - 25.25 x 38.25 x 0.2 inch
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Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - C- Heaume de la naissance et de la mort
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
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Don Quichotte - Don Quichotte
Salvador Dali
Print - 41 x 33 x 0.2 cm Print - 16.1 x 13 x 0.1 inch
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Amadryades Mimétiques Arborescentes
Salvador Dali
Print - 50 x 66 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 26 x 0 inch
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Victoire de l'homme primitif
Salvador Dali
Print - 48 x 65 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.9 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
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The Betrothed of the King of Algarve
Salvador Dali
Print - 45 x 31 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 12.2 x 0 inch
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The Dance from the series The Arts
Salvador Dali
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Dali Illustrates Casanova - Plate 11
Salvador Dali
Print - 47 x 32.2 x 0.3 cm Print - 18.5 x 12.7 x 0.1 inch
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Dernier Combat de Tristan
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 31.6 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.4 x 0 inch
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The Beloved Feeds between the Lilies
Salvador Dali
Print - 56.5 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.2 x 14.8 x 0 inch
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The Search for Golden Fleece
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0 inch
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Dali Illustrates Casanova - Plate 13
Salvador Dali
Print - 47 x 32.2 x 0.3 cm Print - 18.5 x 12.7 x 0.1 inch
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Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Le geant Beliagog (The Giant Beliagog)
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
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Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Isolde of the White Hands
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
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Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': The Three Bad Barons
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
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L'Immortalitè Tetraedrique du cube
Salvador Dali
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
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Plate IV - Dalì Illustrates Casanova
Salvador Dali
Print - 47 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 12.6 x 0 inch
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All's Well That Ens Well
Salvador Dali
Print - 17.5 x 12.5 x 0.05 cm Print - 6.9 x 4.9 x 0 inch
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Venus à la Girafe
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 91 x 56.6 x 0.1 cm Sculpture - 35.8 x 22.3 x 0 inch
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The Three Graces of Hawaii - Tarot: Three of Cups
Salvador Dali
Print - 74.9 x 54.6 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.5 inch
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