Dali, Salvador

(5/11/1904 Figueras-1/25/1989 Figueras) (Spain); aka Dali y Domenech, Salvador

   Painter, etcher, illustrator, author, filmmaker, and sculptor. One of the most prominent individuals in 20th century art and the best known of the Surrealists. As much famed for his flamboyant behavior and self-aggrandizement as for his many paintings, sculptures, films, etc. Studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Much of his work involved dream and fantasy themes that included sexual images. Some of his paintings were so explicit that they created considerable controversy.

   Reproductions: Alphabet drawing ; 1934; Webb, 1975: p. 237 . Anthropomorphic beach; 1928; oil and stone; Dopp, 2004: p. 205 . Das unbefriedigte Verlangen; c1928; oil; Sommer, 1981: p. 36 [B]. [Erotic drawing]; 1931; Neret, 2000: p. 598 [B]. Erotic life; Melville, 1973: fig. 192 [B]. [Erotic scene with seven figures]; c1966; Neret, 1994: p. 650 [B]. Femme nue sur un arc en ciel; Cawthorne, 1997: p. 35 [C]. Great masturbator; 1929; oil; Neret 1993: p. 181 [C]. Honey is sweeter than blood; 1941; oil; Dopp, 2004: p. 207 [C]. Lenigma de Guillaume Tell; Brusendorff, 1960d: p. 103 [B]. Les metamorphoses erotiques; 1969; Klinger, 1982c: fig. 31 [B]. Lip sofa of Mae West; 1936-37; Sommer, 1981: p. 24 [B]. Menu for a banquet for friends of the philosophical hovel; 1933; etching; Weiermair 1995: p. 11 [B]. No title (William Tell and Gradiva); 1931; oil; Dopp, 2004: p. 204 [C]. [Nude couple copulating]; pencil; Kro-nhausen, 1970c: p. 47 [B]. [Nude ithyphallic man and two nude women]; pen and ink; Bentley, 1984: 161 [B] / Melville, 1973: fig. 70 [B]. [Overpainted metal firecracker ads]; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 116 [B]. Plate from Treatise of erotic systems and the 1000 masturbatory ways from the Romans to Dali; 1969; Neret, 1994: pp. 646-649 [B]. Satirical composition; 1923; gouache; Dopp, 2004: p. 206 [C]. [Scatalogical and sexual scene with multiple figures]; Dopp, 2000: p. 44 [C]. St George fighting the octopus; 1963; oil; Smith, 1974: p. 142 [C]. Study for weaning of furniture nutrition; Melville, 1973: fig. 65 [B]. Untitled [multiple images of fellatio, masturbation, etc.]; drawing; Melville, 1973: fig. 225 [B]. Vertigo; 1932; oil; Smith, 1980: p. 187 [C]. Young virgin autosodomized by her own chastity; 1954; oil; Webb, 1975: p. 252 [B] / Lucie-Smith, 1972: 161 [C] / Smith, 1974: p. 143 [C] / Neret, 1994: p. 645 [C].

   [b]Source: Martin Bailey, "Sex and surrealism," Antique Collector 65, 6 (June 1994): pp. 64-69; Benezit, vol. 4: pp. 343-348; Niklas Delacroix, "Salvador Dali: Uber Tod, Eros, Sex, Onanie, Paranoia, Krieg, Hitler, Stalin," Kun-stforum International 99 (March-April 1989): pp. 357+; Salvador Dali, Eroticism in clothing (Beachwood, OH: Dali Museum, 1975); Salvador Dali, Les metamorphoses erotiques: choix de dessins executes de 1940 a 1968 (Lausanne: Edita, 1969); Salvador Dali, "Salvador Dali on eroticism," Penthouse 2, 8 (June-July 1967); DoA vol. 8: pp. 464-468; N.N. Perez, "Dali, Horst, and the Dream of Venus," Israel Museum Journal 3 (Spring 1984): pp. 52-57; Vollmer I 1953: p. 511.