There is a saying that behind every great man there’s a great woman. Today we present one of the truest examples of that. This is the story of a brilliant Surrealist painter & his wife, without whom he would have never become an icon of modern art. She was 10 years older than him and when they met in 1929 she was also married to someone else and was a mother of a little girl.  She also had a lover, who painted her in a number of portraits. But, it was a love at first sight. In his book “Secret Life”, he wrote: “She was destined   to be my Gradiva, the one who moves forward, my victory, my wife”. The name Gradiva comes from the title of a novel by W. Jensen, the main character of which was Sigmund Freud. Gradiva was the book’s heroine and it was her who brought psychological healing to him, the main character. If you hear our last podcast, then you know we are talking about Salvador Dali & his wife Gala.