He had long hair and sideburns, coat, stockings, and knee-breeches in the style of English aesthetes of the late 19th century.Īt the Residencia, he became close friends with (among others) Pepín Bello, Luis Buñuel, and Federico García Lorca. A lean 1.72 metres (5 ft 7 3⁄4 in) tall, Dalí already drew attention as an eccentric and dandy. In 1922, Dalí moved into the Residencia de Estudiantes (Students' Residence) in Madrid and studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Dalí did not resent this marriage, because he had great love and respect for his aunt. I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul." After her death, Dalí's father married his deceased wife's sister. Dalí was 16 years old he later said his mother's death "was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. On 6 February 1921, Dalí's mother died of uterus cancer. He had his first public exhibition at the Municipal Theatre in Figueres in 1918, a site he would return to decades later. The next year, Dalí's father organized an exhibition of his charcoal drawings in their family home. In 1916, he also discovered modern painting on a summer vacation trip to Cadaqués with the family of Ramon Pichot, a local artist who made regular trips to Paris. During holidays at the Catalan resort of Cadaqués, the trio played football together.ĭalí attended drawing school. His childhood friends included future FC Barcelona footballers Sagi Barba and Josep Samitier. In 1949, she published a book about her brother, Dalí as Seen by His Sister. Dalí also had a sister, Anna Maria, who was three years younger. Of his brother, Dalí said, "we resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections." He "was probably the first version of myself but conceived too much in the absolute." Images of his long-dead brother would reappear embedded in his later works, including Portrait of My Dead Brother (1963). His father, Salvador Rafael Aniceto Dalí Cusí (1872–1950) was a middle-class lawyer and notary, an anti-clerical atheist and Catalan federalist, whose strict disciplinary approach was tempered by his wife, Felipa Domènech Ferrés (1874–1921), who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors.Īs a child Dalí was taken to his brother's grave and told by his parents that he was his brother's reincarnation, a concept which he came to believe. Dalí's older brother, who had also been named Salvador (born 12 October 1901), had died of gastroenteritis nine months earlier, on 1 August 1903. Salvador Dalí was born on , in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork. Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descendants of the Moors. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, at times in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Dalí de Púbol ( – 23 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.ĭalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. These original Salvador Dali works have impressive provenance and history. We currently have 6 originals available, including mixed media paintings and sketches.
Cutter & Cutter Fine Art features one of the nation's largest collections of available Salvador Dali original paintings, etchings and lithographs.
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