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	Salvador DALI
	Spain (1904-1989)
Considered the greatest artist of the Surrealist movement. His excellence and creativity will always set a standard for art of the 20th century.
ARTWORKS Expert specialized in the artist's work: R.Descharnes. (Click on the image to enlarge) Artist’s catalogues raisonnés : « Salvador Dali : L’œuvre gravé 1924 à 1980 », 2 volumes, Michler-Lopsinger, Prestel Verlag 1989-1995. « The hard and the soft » 2003, Robert and Nicolas Descharnes.
"Cosmic rhinoceros"	"Milo's venus crossed by draws"
"Rosa e morte floriscens" 1972	"Rhinoceros wearing lace"
" Yet, O Beautiful Dione "	" The Electric Light Bulub "
	" Ray Horse "

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BIOGRAPHY

 

Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. From 1921 to 1925 he studied at the Academia San Fernando de Madrid. The following year he visited Paris and met Pablo Picasso. About this time Dali produced his first surrealist publications and illustrated the works of surrealist writers and poets. His first solo show in the United States took place in New York in 1933.

In 1940 Dali moved to the United States worked on theatrical productions, wrote and illustrated books, and painted. A major retrospective of his work opened in 1941 at the museum of Modern Art in New York and travelled through the United States. He returned to Europe in 1948, settling in Spain. In 1954 a Dali retrospective was held in Rome and in 1964 an important retrospective of his work was shown in Tokyo. He continued painting, writing, and illustrating during the 1960s. The Salvador Dali Museum in Cleveland was inaugurated in 1971. In 1980 a major Dali retrospective was held in the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris, and his work was exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London. The artist died on January 23, 1989, in Figueras.

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