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Gala Dalí was the wife of poet Paul Éluard and later of artist Salvador Dalí, who were both prominent in surrealism. She was a muse and model for many surrealist works, and had a strong libido and a fondness for young artists.
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\"I name my wife: Gala, Galushka, Gradiva; Oliva, for the oval shape of her face and the colour of her skin; Oliveta, diminutive for Olive; and its delirious derivatives Oliueta, Oriueta, Buribeta, Buriueteta, Suliueta, Solibubuleta, Oliburibuleta, Ciueta, Liueta. I also call her Lionette, because when she gets angry she roars like the Metro-Goldwy...
Salvador Dalí's wife and muse, whose real name was Elena Ivanovna Diakonova was a mysterious and highly intuitive woman, which was able to recognise artistic and creative genius when she saw it, and had relations with a number of intellectuals and artists.
Nevertheless, the truth iss that very little is known about herpersonality: she had two older brothers, Vadim and Nicolai, a younger sister, Lidia; she spent her childhood in Moscowand her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother remarried later to a lawyer, with whom Gala related very well and thanks to whom she managed to acquire a g...
They married in 1917, and the following year was born the girl that was to be Gala's only daughter, Cécile. Eluard, who had already been revealed as poet and had changed his surname, had close relationships with the leading figures of the surrealist movementand in particularl with the creators of the Littérature magazine: André Breton, Philippe Sou...
In 1948, Dalí and Gala returned from the United States after eight years of exile there. Dalí had achieved recognition in his own country, and his father had come to accept his son's relationship with a divorced Russian woman. From that time onwards, the Dalís would spend the spring and summer in Portlligat and the autumn and winter between New Yor...
Learn about Gala, the mysterious and intuitive woman who inspired Salvador Dalí's artistic genius. Discover her life story, from her childhood in Russia to her marriage with Dalí and her burial in Púbol castle.
Aug 23, 2018 · Over the decades Dalí painted her repeatedly – as a giant head smiling serenely in a barren landscape, with a lamb chop resting on her shoulder like a military epaulette, as a fractured ...
Learn about Gala Dalí, the Russian-Spanish art patron and muse who influenced and promoted the Surrealist movement. Discover her life, achievements, and artistic legacy through paintings by Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí.
- Russian-Spanish
- September 7, 1894
- Kazan, Russia
- June 10, 1982
Over five decades, Dalí made hundreds of drawings and paintings of Gala, showing his multifaceted wife as the Madonna, as an erotic figure, or as a dark and mysterious woman.
The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí manages and disseminates the legacy of Salvador Dalí located at its headquarters of Galatea Tour and the three Dalí Museums of Figueres, Púbol and Portlligat. It preserves the most complete anthology of the artists and his personal Archives.
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Learn about the life and work of Salvador Dalí, the surrealist painter and his wife Gala, his muse and collaborator. Explore his biography, his film collection and the permanent collections of his art around the world.
