Salvador Dali High Museum 5th best attended exhibit in history of museum

Dalí fifth best-attended exhibit in High Museum history

The High Museum of Art's "Dalí: The Late Work" exhibition drew 20,214 during an open-for-31-hours-straight grand finale, raising overall attendance to more than 270,000.

That makes it the fifth best-attended exhibit in High history. But considered in context, the numbers are more impressive: Three of the top-five shows were from the Atlanta museum's extended partnership with Paris' Louvre museum and ran for nearly a year each. The Dalí exhibit, by contrast, was up for 22 weeks.
"I certainly hoped the exhibit would be a big draw. To actually see the volumes of people was beyond my expectations," "Dalí" curator Elliott King said in an exclusive interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Salvador Dali Museum Florida

The Salvador Dali Museum in Florida is now open. Here are some shots of the new museum exterior and interior. A Surreal structure with an impressive collection of Dali works.

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Salvador Dali Museum in Florida is now open

ST. PETERSBURG --

A new era for the arts began today when the doors open to the new Dalí Museum, showcasing the works of Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.
And after a surreal procession from the old museum building to the new one, an 11:11-a.m. ribbon cutting ushered in the new facility.
The Dalí Museum is ready to welcome the public after six years of intensive planning, two years of construction and $36 million.
The building is larger, safer and more suited to display one of the most comprehensive Dalí collections.

Salvador Dali Experts

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Salvador Dali at auction

"Paul Eluard" (1929) by Salvador Dali is included in Sotheby's auction, ``Looking Closely: A Private Collection,'' to be held in London on Feb. 10. It is estimated at 3.5 million pounds to 5 million pounds. Eluard's wife, Gala, became Dali's life-long companion and muse. Source: Sotheby's via Bloomberg

salvador dali quotes

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dali
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Salvador Dali

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali

Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dali

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali


Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali The Mock Turtles Story

Salvador Dali created his interpretation of the well known story, "Alice in Wonderland"
One of the most sought after works in the suite of prints is titled: The Mock Turtles Story

Old Dali Museum Closes, new museum opens Jan 11th

Visitors took advantage of their last chance to tour the old Salvador Dali museum.

The building closed for good Sunday evening.

The new improved Dali Museum opens 1/11/11

Salvador Dali and Alice Cooper

Salvador Dali and Alice Cooper.

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Elliot King talks about Salvador Dali in Video

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Sistine Madonna 1958



Salvador Dali in Milan

Salvador Dalí Exhibition in Milan has Welcomed More than 222,000 Visitors in Two Months

Salvador Dali and Rynolds and Eleanor Morse

Salvador Dali's biggest supporters and the founders of the Dali Museum in Florida were Reynolds and Eleanor Morse.

Dali sells at auction

Dali nude from Hefner's bedroom is sold at auction

(AP) – 21 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — A Dali watercolor of a reclining nude that hung in Hugh Hefner's bedroom has been sold for more than $266,000 at auction in New York.
The nude, which had expected to fetch $100,000 to $150,000, was among 125 artworks Playboy magazine offered at Christie's on Wednesday. It was sold to an anonymous buyer.

Salvador Dali Alice in Wonderland

You can view the complete suite of 1969 "Alice in Wonderland" works by Dali.
Impressive works. The set comes in a custom made case and is also in it's original shipping container from Random House. Dali hand signed the front piece in pencil and engraved custom signatures for the rest of the suite. 13 pieces in all.

Salvador Dali Walt Disney Destino FREE givaway

Click here to register to win FREE DVD.  Salvador Dali Destino.  Dali and Disney worked together to create.
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Dali at the National Gallery of Armenia

The National Gallery of Armenia plans to hold a series of exhibitions in 2011, including a Surrealism exhibition, Director of the Gallery Paravon Mirzoyan told a news conference in Yerevan.

According to him, the Gallery administration is negotiating with their foreign partners to open Surrealism exhibition in 2011 May in the National Gallery.
Mirzoyan said that works by Salvador Dali, Max Ernst will be exhibited adding that they seek to display works from private collections as well as those from different museums of the world.

Joe Nuzzolo

Joe Nuzzolo and the Salvdor Dali Society recently offered the Disney Destino DVD to a licky winner online.
You can take part in the giveaway on Facebook by looking up Salvdor Dali and finding Joes group.

Dali High Museum Exhibit a Great Success!

Excerpt from recent article:


Salvador Dalí's at the High Museum. Unlike some of the museum's other recent megashows, the fresh perspective on America's favorite surrealist has been lauded by critics and audiences alike. The museum reached capacity at the opening and at several subsequent Dalí-inspired events. Patrons had to be turned away at the door. The man with the funny mustache, it seems, appeals as much to the suburban rank and file as he does to New York Times art critics. By all measures, Dalí: The Late Work has been a runaway success.

Dali exhibit in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- For the first time, the two world-renowned Salvador Dalí experts Mr. Enrique Sabater y Bonany, Dalí’s personal secretary and confidente for over 12 years, and Mr. Beniamino Levi, president of the Stratton Foundation and The Dali Universe, are working side by side on the exhibition ‘The Vision of a Genius’ at the Time Warner Center in New York, located in New York's Columbus Circle, between Broadway and Central Park.

Catherine Zeta Jones rumored to be in upcoming Dali Film

Catherine Zeta Jones is rumoured to be in the Simon West biopic Dali with her Zorro co star Antonio Banderas which chronicles the life of surrealist painter Salvador Dali, with a focus on his success in America.

Salvador Dali predicts the future

Biological Garden
by

Salvador Dali

Hand signed in 1975

From the popular series of works titled:

Imaginations and Objects of the Future

27" x 30" archival paper.

Worldwide edition back in 1975 was 600 (250 set aside for USA)

Today: Rare

Custom hidden watermark from the original publisher on each sheet.

Description: Dali had a unique perception of the world. Dali kept up to date on the

latest scientific technology.

When Dali imagined the future, it was not his best guess based on Science Fiction.

Most people can only draw conclusions from science fiction films and literature.

There are published photographs of Dali as a youth, with a

science book tucked under one arm.

Dali spent many years studying the subject.

Dali's opinions and predictions for the future, we based on his extensive

studies of Math, Science, Biology and other subjects.

Some of todays leading scientists predict biological gardens will become a regular part

of cityscape rooftops, as we begin to change the way we live to alter our climate.

This is one of many cases where Dali hit the mark.

You can clearly see a series of U shaped crutches in the image, as they hold

lines with hanging vegitation.

The crutch is a well known Dali Icon, taken from a work titled: Sleep (1937 oil)

According to Dali the act of sleeping was a sort of monster sustained

by the crutches of reality.

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This work can be shipped unframed flat with protective backing, or

framed in a new museum style frame.

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Salvador Dali owned by Hugh Hefner to be auctioned at Christies

A Dali watercolor of a reclining nude that hung in Hugh Hefner's bedroom is among 125 artworks being auctioned by the magazine known for baring all for nearly 60 years. The Dec. 8 auction at Christie's is dubbed "The Year of the Rabbit."  Salvador Dali was interviewed by Playboy in 1964 in this issue:

There are other Dali images associated with Playboy as well.

And a few others that are too...well, I'd have to give the blog a new rating

in order to add them.