Dalí was born in the early years of the twentieth century in a typical bourgeois family from Figueres (Spain). Trained as a classical artist, he soon discovered Surrealism and also became a celebrity in other artistic fields, such as writing, film and design, which cannot be understood without taking into account the creative project he conceived with his wife Gala. In Dali’s Teatre-Museu, in Figueres, his essence is all over the place, just like an old vice or a never negotiated remorse. In fact, this prodigious building is not only Dalí’s museum: it is also his mausoleum. In this podcast, Estrella de Diego, Professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, talks about this outstanding figure in Spanish culture.

Dalí’s voiceover by Luis Carlos de la Lombana

Books and publications about Salvador Dalí

Aguer, Montse, Dalí's world, London, Goodman, 2009.

Dalí, Salvador (1942), The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, New York, Dover Fine Art, 1993.

Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, London / Figueres / Madrid, Tate Publishing / Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Ministerio de Cultura, 2007.

Exhibition catalogues

Salvador Dalí, the early years, London, South Bank Centre, 1994.

Dalí. Mass Culture, Barcelona / Figueres, Fundació La Caixa / Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, 2004.

De Diego, Estrella, Gala Salvador Dalí. A Room of own's own in Púbol, Barcelona, MNAC-Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, 2018.

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