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From 18th March 2024 to 31st May 2025. VIRTUAL TOUR DALÍ THEATRE-MUSEUM. Purchase tickets. 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.
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Gala Dalí (born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, Елена Ивановна Дьяконова; 7 September [ O.S. 26 August] 1894 – 10 June 1982), usually known simply as Gala, was the wife of poet Paul Éluard and later of artist Salvador Dalí, who were both prominent in surrealism. She also inspired many other writers and artists.
Varios Fundación Dalí. Memoria anual de la Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí. Edición: Fundació Gala Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2022. Edición en catalán y en castellano. PDF castellano.
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 ...
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Gala Dalí was born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova to parents Antonine and Ivan Diakonov. She experienced early family disruption when her father abandoned his wife and four children to search for gold in Siberia. She was just ten when they learned of his death, leaving the family in dire financial straits. Shortly after his passing, however, Gala's mothe...
Gala received a good early education which included attending a finishing school for young ladies in St. Petersburg. However, her frail health prevented advanced study and in 1912 she developed tuberculous and was sent to the Clavadel Sanatorium in Switzerland to recuperate. It was there she met a fellow patient named Paul Éluard(then Paul-Eugène G...
In 1916 Gala bid her family goodbye and moved to Paris where she lived with Éluard and his parents. World War I was raging and Éluard had already been drafted into the army as a medic and infantryman. Following a near fatal gas attack, however, he had spent most of 1915 in hospital suffering from a range of ailments, including bronchitis, cerebral ...
Years later, having almost single-handedly engineered her husband's fame, Gala wanted to ensure that no one could gain access to their fortune. When the couple returned to Spain in 1958, they remarried in a religious ceremony because, having been married previously in a civil ceremony, the law dictated that if Gala were to divorce Dalí, or the pain...
Gala played a vital role in raising the profile of one of the most important movements of the twentieth century. Having gained access to the art world through her first husband, Paul Éluard, who she inspired and encouraged in his writing, she became the muse for other Surrealist group members, notably Max Ernst. However, it was when she began her r...
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- September 7, 1894
- Kazan, Russia
- June 10, 1982
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation is a private cultural organization which, as stated in its bylaws, has the mission to promote, foster, explain, give prestige, protect and defend, both inside and outside the Spanish territory, the artistic, cultural and intellectual oeuvre of the painter.
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri illustrated by Salvador Dalí. 8th October 2021 - 30th September 2022. Go to the exhibition "The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri illustrated by Salvador Dalí". Dalí Theatre-Museum. Dalí: “I am Surrealism!”.
