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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 Lance of Chivalry (Saint George and the Dragon), Salvador Dali

The Lance of Chivalry (Saint George and the Dragon)

Salvador Dali

Print - 58 x 43 x 0.1 cm

$1,312

Cristo de San Juan de la Cruz, Salvador Dali

Cristo de San Juan de la Cruz

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 39 x 15 x 13 cm

$7,109 $5,331

Que Font Ces Gens, Salvador Dali

Que Font Ces Gens

Salvador Dali

Fine Art Drawings - 15.5 x 9.5 x 0.2 cm

$89,677

The Kiss, Salvador Dali

The Kiss

Salvador Dali

Print - 40 x 25 x 0.2 cm

$1,640

Le Buste, Salvador Dali

Le Buste

Salvador Dali

Print - 38.8 x 28.3 x 0.2 cm

$1,575

Dali Martien Muni d'un Double Microscope, Salvador Dali

Dali Martien Muni d'un Double Microscope

Salvador Dali

Print - 99.5 x 69.5 x 0.2 cm

$3,172

Oxigeno en Marte, Salvador Dali

Oxigeno en Marte

Salvador Dali

Print - 23.4 x 16.4 x 0.2 cm

$1,312

El Arcabuz Produce Monsters, Salvador Dali

El Arcabuz Produce Monsters

Salvador Dali

Print - 23.5 x 17.2 x 0.2 cm

$1,312

The Woman Taken in Adultery, Salvador Dali

The Woman Taken in Adultery

Salvador Dali

Print - 45 x 31 x 0.1 cm

$1,094

Pirueta de Plátano, Salvador Dali

Pirueta de Plátano

Salvador Dali

Print - 23.5 x 14 x 0.2 cm

$1,312

Capricho de Goya n°7, Salvador Dali

Capricho de Goya n°7

Salvador Dali

Print - 44.5 x 31 x 0.3 cm

$1,969

Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Tristan's Testament, Salvador Dali

Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Tristan's Testament

Salvador Dali

Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm

$1,804

Capricho de Goya n°63, Salvador Dali

Capricho de Goya n°63

Salvador Dali

Print - 21 x 15 x 0.2 cm

$1,969

Aquellos armarios tinosos, Salvador Dali

Aquellos armarios tinosos

Salvador Dali

Print - 23.5 x 17 x 0.2 cm

$1,258

The Elephant and Jupiter's Monkey, Salvador Dali

The Elephant and Jupiter's Monkey

Salvador Dali

Print - 58 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm

$1,531

Profil du temps, Salvador Dali

Profil du temps

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 51 x 35 x 35 cm

$39,764

Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos, Salvador Dali

Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos

Salvador Dali

Print - 97.8 x 69.9 cm

$4,500

Pastorale, Salvador Dali

Pastorale

Salvador Dali

Print - 72.4 x 63.5 cm

$4,200

The Face in the Windmill, Salvador Dali

The Face in the Windmill

Salvador Dali

Print - 64.1 x 97.2 cm

$12,000

Flordali - Les Fruits : Révérence du groseiller, Salvador Dali

Flordali - Les Fruits : Révérence du groseiller

Salvador Dali

Print - 56.5 x 37 cm

$3,500

Ten of Staves, Salvador Dali

Ten of Staves

Salvador Dali

Print - 76.2 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm

$3,000

Les montres molles demi sommeil, Salvador Dali

Les montres molles demi sommeil

Salvador Dali

Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm

$2,500

Surrealist King, Salvador Dali

Surrealist King

Salvador Dali

Print - 75.2 x 53.8 cm

$3,500

La Tortue, Salvador Dali

La Tortue

Salvador Dali

Print - 23.8 x 19 x 0.1 cm

$3,270

Christopher Columbus, Salvador Dali

Christopher Columbus

Salvador Dali

Print - 74.9 x 53.3 x 0.5 cm

$2,500

Christopher Columbus, Salvador Dali

Christopher Columbus

Salvador Dali

Print - 74.9 x 53.3 cm

$2,500

Eléphant de Triomphe, Salvador Dali

Eléphant de Triomphe

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 53 x 25 x 14.5 cm

$46,457

La Quête du Saint Graal -G- Le tournoi de Galore, Salvador Dali

La Quête du Saint Graal -G- Le tournoi de Galore

Salvador Dali

Print - 45.5 x 32.8 cm

$3,281

La Quête du Graal -D- La douloureuse Garde, Salvador Dali

La Quête du Graal -D- La douloureuse Garde

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.8 x 45.5 cm

$3,675

Le Tricorne - Conclusion, moralité et épilogue (b), Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Conclusion, moralité et épilogue (b)

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm

$2,559

Eternal Circumcision from Aliyah Series, Salvador Dali

Eternal Circumcision from Aliyah Series

Salvador Dali

Print - 62.2 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm

$2,500

The Golden Helmet of Mandrino from Historia de Don Quichote de la Mancha, Salvador Dali

The Golden Helmet of Mandrino from Historia de Don Quichote de la Mancha

Salvador Dali

Print - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.5 cm

$3,500

Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses, Salvador Dali

Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses

Salvador Dali

Print - 67.9 x 50.2 x 0.5 cm

$3,000

Les spoutniks astiques elasticots statistiques, Salvador Dali

Les spoutniks astiques elasticots statistiques

Salvador Dali

Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm

$2,500

Les Entre-plats Sodamises, Salvador Dali

Les Entre-plats Sodamises

Salvador Dali

Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm

$2,500

Les caprices pinces princiers, Salvador Dali

Les caprices pinces princiers

Salvador Dali

Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm

$2,500

Les Panaches Panaches from Les Diners de Gala, Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dali

Les Panaches Panaches from Les Diners de Gala, Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dali

Print - 55.9 x 74.9 x 0.5 cm

$2,500

Babaouo (Livre Complet avec Décompositions et gravure additionnelles), Salvador Dali

Babaouo (Livre Complet avec Décompositions et gravure additionnelles)

Salvador Dali

Print - 39.5 x 30 x 4.5 cm

$6,562

Ten of Staves, Salvador Dali

Ten of Staves

Salvador Dali

Print - 76.2 x 48.3 cm

$3,000

Henry V, from Much Ado about Shakespeare, Salvador Dali

Henry V, from Much Ado about Shakespeare

Salvador Dali

Print - 17.1 x 12.7 cm

$3,000

Vieux Faust (Old Faust), Salvador Dali

Vieux Faust (Old Faust)

Salvador Dali

Print - 38.1 x 27.9 cm

$3,000

Le Singe et le Léopard, Salvador Dali

Le Singe et le Léopard

Salvador Dali

Print - 76.2 x 56.5 cm

$3,250

Anemone per Anti-Pasti (Anemone of the Toreador) from Florals, Salvador Dali

Anemone per Anti-Pasti (Anemone of the Toreador) from Florals

Salvador Dali

Print - 55.9 x 38.1 cm

$2,900

Faust - Marguerite Gretchen, Salvador Dali

Faust - Marguerite Gretchen

Salvador Dali

Print - 39 x 29 x 0.1 cm

$3,281

Jeremiah from Our Historical Heritage, Salvador Dali

Jeremiah from Our Historical Heritage

Salvador Dali

Print - 66 x 50.5 cm

$4,500

Jean de La Fontaine, Salvador Dali

Jean de La Fontaine

Salvador Dali

Print - 76 x 57 x 1 cm

$1,422

La Quête du Saint Graal -L- Lancelot, compagnon de la Table Ronde, Salvador Dali

La Quête du Saint Graal -L- Lancelot, compagnon de la Table Ronde

Salvador Dali

Print - 45.5 x 32.8 cm

$3,675

La Quête du Saint Graal -K- Le détroit de Gadalore, Salvador Dali

La Quête du Saint Graal -K- Le détroit de Gadalore

Salvador Dali

Print - 45.5 x 32.8 cm

$3,675

Faust - Vieux Faust, Salvador Dali

Faust - Vieux Faust

Salvador Dali

Print - 39 x 29 x 0.1 cm

$3,281

Le Tricorne - La foi soulève les montagnes, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - La foi soulève les montagnes

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm

$2,362

Le Tricorne - Le doute et la réalité (b), Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Le doute et la réalité (b)

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm

$3,150

Le Tricorne - Talents des deux conjoints, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Talents des deux conjoints

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm

$2,559

Le Tricorne - Hue Bourrique !, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Hue Bourrique !

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm

$2,559

Le Tricorne - Le fond du bonheur, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Le fond du bonheur

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm

$2,362

Le Tricorne - Une femme vue de dehors, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Une femme vue de dehors

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm

$3,150

Le Tricorne - Comment vivaient alors les gens, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Comment vivaient alors les gens

Salvador Dali

Print - 32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm

$2,362

La Licorne, Salvador Dali

La Licorne

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 57 x 48 x 33.5 cm

$43,045

La femme du temps, Salvador Dali

La femme du temps

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 65.5 x 21.5 x 17.5 cm

$38,058

Le masque mortuaire de Napoléon, Salvador Dali

Le masque mortuaire de Napoléon

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 22 x 28 x 19 cm

$103,895

Danseuse dalinienne, Salvador Dali

Danseuse dalinienne

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 44.5 x 22.5 x 20.5 cm

$38,058

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Who is the artist?

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. 

What is Salvador Dali’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Surrealist Artists, Provocative Artists, Magic Realism, Avant-garde artists, Appropriation

When was Salvador Dali born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1904