Description of the work

The work The Conquest of the Grail is by the artist Salvador Dalí. Engraving technique. Measures 67 x 52 cm. Year 1973. Edition LXXXV. 31/85. PVP 3000 €

L'artista català espanyol Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) es va fer conegut per les seves creacions surrealistes i la seva extravagant vida. Dalí produced innovative and prolific paintings, sculptures, fashion, advertising, books and films. His extravagant, revolted mustache and old strangers made Dalí a cultural icon. Although rejected by members of the surrealist movement, Salvador Dalí is one of the most famous surrealist artists in the world.

Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain on May 11, 1904. He was named Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol, the boy lived in the shadow of another son, also called Salvador. The dead brother "was probably a first version of myself, but it was conceived too much at all," Dalí wrote in his autobiography "The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí." Dalí believed that he was his brother, reincarnated. Images of his brother often appeared in Dalí's paintings.

Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain on May 11, 1904. He was named Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol, the boy lived in the shadow of another son, also called Salvador. The dead brother "was probably a first version of myself, yet it was conceived too much at all," Dalí wrote in his autobiography "The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí." Dalí believed that he was his brother, reincarnated. Images of his brother often appeared in Dalí's paintings.

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he was dating young women and erotic accessories to men. However, he painted romantic and mystical portraits of Gala. Gala, in turn, seemed to accept Dalí's infidelities.

In 1971, after being married for almost 40 years, Gala retired for weeks, staying in an 11th-century Gothic castle that Dalí bought from Púbol in Spain. Dalí could only visit her by invitation.

Due to his dementia, Gala began giving Dalí an over-the-counter medicine that damaged his nervous system and caused tremors that ended his work as a painter. She died in 1982 at the age of 87 and was buried in Púbol Castle. Deeply depressed, Dalí lived there for the remaining seven years of his life.

Dalí and Gala never had children. Long after her death, a woman born in 1956 claimed to be Dalí's biological daughter with legal rights to be part of her estate. In 2017, Dalí's organ (with a mustache still intact) was exhumed. Samples of teeth and hair were taken. DNA tests refuted the woman's claim.

For more information on the work The Conquest of the Grail by the artist Salvador Dalí, at the Espai Cavallers gallery, Lleida.