The Salvador Dalí Museum in Figueres, Spain. The Salvador Dalí Museum is the permanent home of the world's most comprehensive collection of the renowned Spanish artist's work. Compiled by the A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Morse over a 45- year period, it is celebrated for its 96 oil paintings.

The Salvador Dalí Museum With oils spanning from 1917 through 1970, the collection provides an excellent overview of Dalí's major themes and symbols. Characterized by its diversity, it includes the Impressionist and Cubist styles of his early period, abstract work from his transition to Surrealism, the famous surrealist canvases for which he is best known, and examples of his preoccupation with religion and science during his classic period.

The Salvador Dalí Museum In addition to the 96 oil paintings, the collection includes over 100 watercolors and drawings, 1,300 graphics, photographs, sculptures and objects d'art, and an extensive archival library. Periodic rotations of the collection and special exhibitions allow museum goers to view new work on repeat visits.

Salvador Dalí Dalí was born in the town of Figueres, Spain located inland at the foot of the Pyrenees near the French border. The landscape in this region has been a major inspiration and influence on all of Dalí’s work. In the summers, the Dalí family often retreated to their residence in the nearby coastal town of Cadaqués, where they stayed annually for many years. This self-portrait, painted about 1921 indicates that Dalí's style had become less impressionistic and subject. Self Portrait (Figueres) (1921)

Salvador Dalí This view of Cadaqués from the rock terraces above the Dalí family home was painted during Dalí’s Second year at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts. He chooses a powerful composition from his homeland, presenting its tranquility in historic form. The style of the Post Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne ( ) is evident in the Geometric treatment of the landscape and village. The design of the trees – sinuous, rhythmic, and echoing the shape of the balloon in the sky - contrasts with the blocky houses in the distance. If the seven young women in the foreground appear similar to one another, it is because Dalí used his sister, Ana María ( ), as the model for all of them. Ana María was Dalí’s only sibling and was his primary model for his paintings in the early years until the artist met Gala, his future wife, in Portrait of My Sister (1923), fragment

Salvador Dalí Several ambiguous elements in this painting make it feel more like a dream then reality. First, judging by the scale of the building next to the girl, she appears to be far too large for the landscape. She is posed with her windswept, diaphanous dress clinging to her figure provocatively. In addition while the landscape is painted in a fairly realistic manner, the curves of the girl’s body are highly exaggerated and accentuated. Finally, the girl is viewed from behind, creating a sense of mystery. By hiding the face, Dalí denies the viewer any psychological details that the girl’s face would provide. This girl originated in childhood fantasies about a fictional Russian girl whom he nicknamed “Galuchka.” He saw this girl in one of the images in an optical theater/stereoscopic box in the house of his childhood teacher, Señor Trayter. The artist wrote in his autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí that these images “were to stir me most deeply, for the rest of his life”. She became his dream girl onto whom he could project all of his desires. Girl with Curls (1926)

Gala Nude Seen from Behind Salvador Dalí and Gala Besides that Gala became the wife of the Dalí, it throughout all life remained it muse. Galatea of the Spheres.1952 Salvador Dali. The Madonna of Port Lligat. 1950

The Salvador Dalí Museum Three-dimensional works Dalí experiments with holography and three dimensional space. Visit own museum «The Teatre-Museu Dalí-is» located in Figueres, Spain Salvador Dali. Rinoceronte vestido con puntillas.1956