Salvador Dalí

(Spanish, 1904–1989)

Salvador Dalí was a renowned Surrealist artist known for his enigmatic paintings of dreamscapes and religious themes. The Persistence of Memory (1931), arguably his best known work, visually manifests the strangeness of time, showing clocks melting in an idyllic landscape. “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams,” he once reflected. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he displayed a great aptitude for the visual arts as a teenager. Three years after his first exhibition at the age of 14, he enrolled at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. At school, he emulated many contemporary styles but also the works of Johannes Vermeer and Diego Velázquez. During his visits to Paris in the late 1920s, he was introduced to the Surrealist movement by René Magritte and Joan Miró. Though the concept of Surrealism was new to him, Dalí was already well versed in the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Dabbling in various projects throughout his long career, in 1942 he published the book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí. A mixture of self-aggrandizing confessions and sadistic fantasies about his childhood, the book further outlined the artist’s outlandish persona. However, his pronounced sense of ego was not always unfounded, as evinced in his works inclusion in Alfred Hitchcock’s famous dream sequence from the film Spellbound (1945). Dalí died on January 23, 1989 in his hometown of Figueres, Spain. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, among others.
Salvador Dalí (18 results)
Dance of time III

Salvador Dalí

Dance of time III

Roseberys London

Est. 10,000–15,000 GBP

Salvador Dalí

"Boccacio Décamerone"

Bukowskis Stockholm

Est. 50,000–60,000 SEK

”Le Cabinet Anthropomorphique”

Salvador Dalí

”Le Cabinet Anthropomorphique”

Bukowskis Stockholm

Est. 130,000–150,000 SEK

Salvador Dalí

"Venus à la Giraffe"

Bukowskis Stockholm

Est. 25,000–30,000 SEK

Salvador Dalí

"Femme à la tête de rose", 1981

Bukowskis Stockholm

Est. 50,000–60,000 SEK

VENUS DE MILO AUX TIROIRS, 1986, 1986

Salvador Dalí

VENUS DE MILO AUX TIROIRS, 1986, 1986

Waddington's

Est. 2,500–3,500 CAD

NOBILITY OF TIME, 1977-1984, 1977–1984

Salvador Dalí

NOBILITY OF TIME, 1977-1984, 1977–1984

Waddington's

Est. 25,000–35,000 CAD

Sans titre, 1942

Salvador Dalí

Sans titre, 1942

Sotheby's New York

Est. 2,000,000–3,000,000 USD

Gala tenant une tapisserie, 1970

Salvador Dalí

Gala tenant une tapisserie, 1970

Sotheby's New York

Est. 120,000–180,000 USD

Carmen

Salvador Dalí

Carmen

Uppsala Auktionskammare

Est. 15,000–20,000 SEK

Le Cabinet Anthropomorphique

Salvador Dalí

Le Cabinet Anthropomorphique

Uppsala Auktionskammare

Est. 50,000–60,000 SEK