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Espace Dalí in Paris Hosts Important Visitors
2017/06/12

During Spring this year, Espace Dalí, Paris’s only museum dedicated to Dalí, welcomed some important visitors. One was Mr Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), in...

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Dalí sculpture in the film ‘Love off the Cuff’
2017/06/02

Many films feature artworks from famous artists, now a recently released Chinese film has a scene featuring a sculpture from the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí.

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Dalí’s Christ of St John on the Cross
2017/05/24

One of Dalí s most famous paintings is Christ of St John on the Cross. (1951) Considered his finest religious painting, it now hangs in Scotland’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery, in Glasgow’s...

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Salvador Dalí and Leonardo Da Vinci
2017/05/22

Salvador Dalí was inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci, 500 years his predecessor. Born five centuries apart, these two artistic giants shared many aspects of genius.

Da Vinci was a painter,...

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Dalí Dance of Time I sculpture in Vancouver
2017/05/10

Dalí sculpture has arrived in the centre of downtown Vancouver. Last week saw the unveiling of the Dance of Time I sculpture at Chali Rosso gallery, Vancouver’s largest art gallery of...

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A Surrealist Banquet TEFAF New York
2017/05/03

Di Donna Galleries in New York will present ‘A Surrealist Banquet’  for the spring edition of TEFAF at  the Park Avenue Armoury from May 4th- 8th. The installation, curated by Di Donna Galleries,...

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Miss Dalí - Coming Soon
2017/04/28

Dalí continues to inspire and energise the artistic scene; a new film about the artists’ life, more specifically his relationship  with his sister, is due for release later in 2017.

The new...

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Dalí and his Saint George and the Dragon sculpture
2017/04/18

Around 40 years ago in 1979, New York’s Guggenheim museum presented Dalí’s first hyper-stereoscopic artworks for exhibit. In the same year in May, Dalí was elected as a member of the Académie...

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Dalí: Early Years
2017/03/14

Dalí  is perhaps best known for work created in his later years, but it is his early years that formed him and his artistic persuasions. He was not only a painter, but also a writer, poet,...

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Beniamino Levi; My Meeting with Warhol.
2017/02/21

Born in 1928, Beniamino Levi is an art dealer, curator, collector, art connoisseur, owner of one of the largest collections of Dalí Sculpture currently part of the Dalí...

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Dalí and his Spanish Influencers
2017/02/10

Dalí was influenced by many artists and cultural figures during his prolific career, one of who was Federico Garcia Lorca.  It was eighty years ago in 1937, that Lorca was...

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Dalí ’s Sister’s Portrait in auction at Bonhams
2017/02/02

Bonham’s  (www.bonhams.com)  Impressionist and Modern sale on the 2nd of March will have as its highlight a portrait of Dalí’s sister, painted in 1925.  ...

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Anniversary of Salvador Dalí’s death
2017/01/24

On the 23rd of January 1989, Dalí was laid to rest in the crypt at the Dalí Museum-Theatre in Figueras, at eighty-five years of age.  According to the Descharnes catalogue raisonee, ‘ The Hard and...

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Lobster telephone in Auction
2017/01/20

In December 2016, the iconic white Lobster Telephone, created in 1936 was auctioned at Christies in London. The £150,000-£250,000 estimate was a conservative reminder that Salvador Dalí artworks...

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Dalí and Advertising
2016/11/28

Dalí was fascinated with the commercial, and advertising was just one of the areas of the media he tapped into. The master of Surrealism was a shrewd businessman, he knew his image worked, he...

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