IndyCar driver Servia and his admiration for Salvador Dali

As you watch the Detroit Chevrolet Belle Isle Grand Prix this weekend, each of the drivers who compete in the IZOD IndyCar Series own distinctive paint schemes on their race cars, but there’s another way to tell them apart on race day – their helmet design. And when it comes to those designs, none tell stories like the ones that protect the head of Oriol Servia, driver of the No. 22 Chevrolet for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.

Servia pays homage to his hero on his helmet, but it’s not who you would expect. The Spaniard is a huge fan of surrealist painter and countryman Salvador Dali (1904-89), and his helmet displays a depiction of Dali’s face. Read Rest of Story Here

Gad by Salvador Dali from 12 Tribes of Israel

25 3/4" x 20" on archival paper.

Hand signed by Salvador Dali in 1972

Excellent condition and still in the original case with

the other prints from the Twelve Tribes suite.

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This is an original hand colored etching.

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At the time when Jacob and his family of seventy souls came to live in Egypt, Gad was the father of seven sons. When our Patriarch Jacob blessed his sons before his death (Gen. 49:19), he prophesied that the tribe of Gad will provide brave troops who will lead the children of Israel to victory in the conquest of the Promised Land, then return to their inheritance on the eastern side of the Jordan.25 3/4" x 20" on archival paper.

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Salvador Dali Joan of Arc

“Joan of Arc”

Hand signed by Dali in 1978

22” x 30” on archival paper.

Lithograph with original remarque

Salvador Dali was a student of history and paid homage

to many historical figures.

Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in what is now eastern France, who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, transferred to the English in exchange for money, put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais for charges of "insubordination and heterodoxy," and burned at the stake as a heretic when she was only 19 years old.

Twenty-five years after the execution, an Inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She is – along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux – one of the patron saints of France. Joan said that she had visions from God that instructed her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days. Several more swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.

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Salvador Dali Changes Great Masterpieces

Salvador Dali created interpretations of many great works of art. One of the most talked about is
"The Angelus" by Millet.

Salvador Dali also created limited edition works that paid hommage to other

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALVADOR DALI

Today is May 11th 2012

Salvador Dali was born on May 11th 1904 in Figueres Spain. Dali forever changed the landscape of the art world with his well known Masterpiece The Persistence of Memory.

Location: Museum of Modern Art

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Salvador Dali and the Media

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Salvador Dali Desert

Salvador Dali made such a big impact on Global Society that a desert is named after him.
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Salvador Dalí Desert, also known as Dalí Valley (Valle de Dalí), is an extremely barren valley of southwestern Bolivia, in the Potosí Department. It is entirely contained within the borders of Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and is characterized by landscapes that resemble surrealist paintings by Salvador Dalí.

Salvador Dali Master PrintMaker

Salvador Dali not only created original oils, watercolor, ink and other mediums as one of a kind works, he also learned the art of printmaking in Paris at the same location where Picasso sudied etching and engraving.

Some examples of Dali limited edition prints can be seen in museusms like the Museum of Modern Art or the Fine Art Museum in San Franscisco to name a few. Here are a few examples of his limited edition works.

"Soft Watches Half Asleep"

"The Emerald Table"

"Roman Cavalier"

"Argus" (Color)

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The Scream sells for 120 Mil along with Dali and Picasso

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Salvador Dali Alice in Wonderland

This suite of 12 illustrations is Salvador Dali's interpretation of

Lewis Carroll's well know story:

"Alice in Wonderland"

The correct title for this work by Dali is: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

The text on the 2nd sheet in this suite reads: Etching and remarques were printed by Ateliers Rigal.

Printed in France in 1969

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (the Wonderland of the title) populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862,up the River Thames with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church) : Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849) ("Prima" in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852) ("Secunda" in the prefatory verse); Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853) ("Tertia" in the prefatory verse).

The journey began at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. To while away time the Reverend Dodgson told the girls a story that, not so coincidentally, featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. After a lengthy delay—over two years—he eventually did so and on 26 November 1864 gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself.

Who Stole the Tarts

A Caucus Race and a Long Tail

Advice from a Caterpillar

Alice

Alices Evidence

A Mad Tea Party

A Pig in a Pepper Tree

Down the Rabbit Hole

The Lobster Quadrille

A Mock Turtle Story

The Pool of Tears

The Queens Croquet Ground

The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

The Alice in Wonderland series by Salvador Dali is one of the most talked about suites of

prints on the market.

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Salvador Dali Lilies of Time Soft Watch

"Lilies of Time"

by

Salvador Dali

Hand signed in 1972

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Salvador Dali Stillness of Time Melting Clock

Salvador Dali's best known works include melting clocks and other icons. The image featured below is "Stillness of Time" from 1976. Salvador Dali and his publisher created a limited edition of hand signed prints on high quality paper.

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Salvador Dali at Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Institute of Arts will host a Spanish Masters exhibit that includes Picasso and Salvador Dali among others. Read about it HERE

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Dali work expected to fetch 10 Million

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 75-year-old masterwork by Surrealist painter Salvador Dali is expected to fetch $10 million or more when it hits the auction block next month, Sotheby's said on Wednesday.

"Printemps necrophilique," a 1936 work by the Spanish master which depicts a seated male and a standing female in an eerily realistic landscape, has a presale estimate of $8 million to $12 million when it is offered at the May 2 sale of Impressionist and Modern Art. It was last been on the market about 15 years ago.

"Surrealism is the last great movement of 20th-century modernism to be fully appreciated in the marketplace," said Simon Shaw, Sotheby head of Impressionist and modern art in New York, referring to recent records.

Dali's "Portrait de Paul Eluard" set a record for a Surrealist work when it sold for $21.7 million at Sotheby's in February 2011, while Ernst's "The Stolen Mirror" soared to $16.3 million, or more than three times the estimate, smashing the artist's record of $2.67 million at Christie's last fall.

Dalí in 3-D: Alan Cumming to Star in ‘The Surrealist’

By Andrew Russeth
“If you’re going to make a film in 3-D, Surrealism is what to make it about,” filmmaker Philippe Mora told The Observer by phone. And so that is pretty much exactly what Mr. Mora is doing. He is working on a movie right now called The Surrealist, about painter Salvador Dalí and his tempestuous wife, Gala. Alan Cumming and Judy Davis are taking the lead roles.

“It’s about an imaginary love affair that he had with the Mona Lisa,” Mr. Mora explained. “Gala gets jealous, even though it’s an imaginary lover. That’s quite a woman to compete with!”
Mr. Mora said that some scholars now believe that the model for the Mona Lisa was a man, an assistant of Leonardo who donned lady’s clothes for the iconic portrait, “so we’re putting that element into the movie, which perfectly fit Dalí,” he continued. “It was too good to be true. His private life is literally indescribable. You really couldn’t classify him.”
Dalí died in 1989, at the age of 84, so to help make sense of his private life, Mr. Mora has met with associates of the artist, like the late photographer Robert Whitaker and the former club kids Robert and Richard DuPont, who left Connecticut at 17, in the 1970s, to live and work in the city. They fell in with the crowd at Studio 54, including Andy Warhol, who brought them to one of Dalí’s notoriously elaborate dinner parties—where artists and writers mingled with actors and transvestites—and they all hit it off.
A typical night with Dalí? One of those dinners at a now-lost legendary redoubt, like Trader Vic’s or the Versailles Room at the St. Regis, then a trip to the short-lived Midtown transvestite bar G. G. Barnums. “There was a trapeze there and drag queens used to fly back and forth on the trapeze,” Mr. DuPont recalled. One night, “Freddie”—that would be his then-lover, Queen singer Freddie Mercury—“went flying back and forth on the trapeze, it was fabulous.
“Afterward, Dalí wanted to go see a Disney movie, Fantasia, and it was playing around Times Square, and we went from drag queens and Freddie flying across to Fantasia. He good friends with Walt Disney.” He added, “And then there was a Howard Johnson’s on Broadway—I don’t know if it’s still there—where we would go for coconut ice cream with Gala. And then—wait until you hear what we did afterward!—there was a strip club right around the corner from Howard Johnson’s called Gaiety, a gay, male burlesque house. You would have to walk up these flights of stairs and he wanted to go up to watch these men—these boys—strip in front of these old men.”
Mr. DuPont recalls Dalí as “one of the most generous men.” When he and his brother didn’t pay the bill for the hotel where they were living for some time, the artist covered it and put them up at the luxe St. Regis. Another time, the day after Gala admired peonies at the New York Botanical Garden with Elizabeth Taylor, Dalí filled her room with the flowers.
How much of this makes it into the finished movie, which will begin shooting by the end of the year, remains to be seen, but the plan is to channel the master’s vision. “It’s really a fantasy about the film that Dalí would make about himself,” Mr. Mora said.

Fine Art Los Angeles

While Florida is home to the Salvador Dali Museum, Los Angeles is home to the best known and most respected broker of works by the 20th Century Master Salvador Dali, The Dali Society.
Collecting prints, drawings or original works by Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Warhol has become difficult for the average person, but there is still time to own a work by Dali, and it doesn't have to break the bank.

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"Bullfight #5"

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Salvador Dali Museum exhibit

19 March 2012 / TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, İSTANBUL

A selection of Salvador Dali’s well-known works is set to go on display in the Turkish capital this week, following its well-received stint this winter in İstanbul, Turkish news agencies reported this week.
The exhibition, a joint effort between Moscow-based exhibit organizer and art gallery inArtis Project and the İstanbul-based cultural events organizer Kült, will go on display Friday at Ankara’s Cer Modern museum of modern art, the Anatolia news agency reported. The show’s two-month İstanbul exhibition ended late last month at the Tophane-i Amire Cultural Center of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
Featuring a selection of 121 paintings, drawings and lithographs by the master of Surrealism, the exhibition presents Dali’s works under three headings: “Divine Comedy,” an allusion to Dali’s inspiration from Dante’s epic poem of the same name; “Traces of Surrealism,” a nine-piece series of lithographic color prints he made in Paris in 1971 regarded as exemplary of Dali’s symbolism and Surrealism; and “Dinner with Gala,” a portfolio of 12 colored lithographs also made in 1971, in which he depicts a surrealistic gastro-aesthetical story inspired from menus and recipes from famous restaurants and chefs.
Dali (1904-1989), best known for the striking and bizarre images in his work, was educated in fine arts and continued down his own path built upon this education. The prolific artist produced in a variety of media that also included film, sculpture and photography.
The exhibition will run until May 20 in Ankara, Anatolia said. Cer Modern is closed on Mondays.