Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol

Interview by Sarah Phillips

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 23 October 2011

I was working for Condé Nast and Mademoiselle magazine in New York and had a reportage way of shooting, even for fashion. It caught Andy Warhol's eye; he wanted someone to tag along to parties or to photograph him making silkscreens and movies, capturing his daily life.

For a 24-year-old Englishman, hanging out at the Factory was mind-blowing. I had no idea people lived this way; any time of the day or night, there would be something wild going on. I couldn't afford to get too whacked because I had to stay focused for my work, so I just observed. And a lot of what happened I couldn't photograph: there was no way you could publish those kind of pictures.
On this particular occasion, in the winter of 1964-65, I got a call saying we were to meet at the St Regis hotel: we were going to visit Salvador Dalí, my hero. I was thrilled. When we arrived at his suite, Dalí beckoned us in with a cane and no one spoke; opera music was playing so loudly that the room was vibrating. He grabbed Andy by the arm and plonked him in a chair, pointed at me to get my camera ready, then grabbed a huge Inca headdress, dramatically placing it on Andy's head.
It was pure theatre. Dalí was making Andy so nervous – which was unusual: it was usually him who made other people tongue-tied – that he was guzzling back wine. I'd never even seen him drink before. He kept looking as if he was ready to bolt for the door, and then finally he said: "David, we've gotta go."
There is nothing manufactured about the picture: things happened so fast it was almost like being a war photographer. We were there for no more than five minutes, and we never discussed the experience afterwards. That wasn't Andy's style, and I think he was genuinely shocked by the meeting. Suddenly the table had been turned and it was no longer me photographing Warhol, it was Dalí with Warhol.

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Dali and Alfred Hitchcock

Dali on Whats My Line TV show

Dali creating hand signed lithographs in his studio

in the mid 1960's

Salvador Dali Fashion Show

1953 - Dali entered a Fashion Contest in New York. The theme was, "Woman of the Future." The dress that Dali had designed was so large it had to be photographed on the roof of "The Roxy." Here is one of the Phillippe Halsman photos of the event. In true Halsman fashion, the model is jumping.

Salvador Dali Dulcinea

Salvador Dali's Dulcinea the imaginary beauty conjured up by the main character of the story Don Quixote in Don Quichotte of La Mancha

Salvador Dali Battle with the Wine Skins

Salvador Dali created original lithographs in 1957

The subject was Don Quichotte or Don Quixote (Two spellings)

This is the image that depicts the part of the story having to do with the slashing of the wine skins.

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Salvador Dali Don Quichotte

Salvador Dali Don Quichotte also spelled Don Quixote, both spellings are used in the suite of 1957 original lithographs created by Salvador Dali

The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus Salvador Dali

The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus can be seen at the Dali Museum in

St. Petersburg Florida.

One of Dali's most talked about works, is among many large impressive and well known oils created by Dali

over 40 years ago.

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Salvador Dali in Switerland Surrealism exhibit

The Fondation Beyeler is devoting the first-ever comprehensive exhibition in Switzerland to Surrealism in Paris.
On view will be major works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, and many more who either belonged to the movement or were associated with it. Surrealism was one of the most crucial artistic and literary movements of the twentieth century and had a lasting influence on it. After emerging in Paris in 1924, the movement unfolded a worldwide impact. Influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud and under the leadership of its chief theoretician, André Breton, the Surrealists set out to change life and society by means of a new brand of art and poetry. Tapping the unconscious mind and world of dreams was to trigger an entirely unprecedented kind of creativity. "Dalí, Magritte, Miró – Surrealism in Paris" comprises about 290 masterworks and manuscripts by about 40 artists and authors.
The highlights will include a presentation of the legendary Surrealist private collections amassed by Peggy Guggenheim and by Breton’s first wife Simone Collinet. In addition to famous paintings and sculptures, objects, photographs, drawings, manuscripts, jewelry and films await discovery.
The loans to the exhibition stem from renowned private collections and public museums, in Europe and the United States.

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Salvador Dali MOMA

Dalí was a New York City cultural fixture in the 1960s. When in town he resided with his wife Gala at the St. Regis Hotel, just a block away from MoMA, and was often seen dashing about from one fabulous appointment to another. Before arriving in New York in 1934, Dalí professed an uncanny familiarity with the city; this was the case as his knowledge of New York was from its numerous cinematic portrayals and not firsthand experience. Dalí sat for two Warhol Screen Tests, both made in 1966. The first (ST67) is often called Upside Down Dalí, as the 3.7-minute short was filmed with the camera upside down. Callie Angell notes he “gives a typically surreal performance” by staring imperiously and playing with a small, sequined evening bag. He even taps the bag against his cheek as if keeping rhythm with some offscreen music.

Salvador Dali Destino

Salvador Dali The Argus RARE 1960 hand colored print signed by Dali

THE ARGUS BY SALVADOR DALI

VERY RARE  

(Notice the detailed work in the lower portion)

20” x 30” on archival paper.

From the rare 1st edition.

(There is also a 2nd edition and a black and white edition)

Published in Paris France in 1960

This is a museum level work.

Subject: Greek Mythology

ARGOS (Argus) PANOPTES was a hundred-eyed giant who lived in the region of Argolis in the Peloponnese.

Once when Zeus was consorting with the Nymph Io, his wife Hera arrived on the scene. The god quickly transformed his lover into a white heifer, but the goddess was not deceived. She demanded the animal for a gift and set Argos Panoptes as its guard.

Zeus sent Hermes to surreptitiously rescue his lover. The god first tried to lull the giant to sleep with his music, but failing that, slew him with his sword. It was from this endeavour that he earned his familiar title Argeiphontes (literally "the slayer of Argos").

Hera rewarded Argos for his service by placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock.

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Salvador Dali Alfred Hitchcock Spellbound

Alfred Hitchcock wanted Salvador Dali to create a dream sequence for his 1940's film "Spellbound" with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman. Hitchcock felt that Dali was the only one who understood that dreams were not properly represented in films because in those days directors and special effects people would depict dreams in a fog or haze and use lense filters to blur the edges of the scene. Hitchcock wanted sharp edges and long shadows, Dali was the perfect man for the job and was hired to create the now famous dream sequence.

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Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali

Alice Cooper was asked by Laura Barnett:

What's your favorite museum?

The Salvador Dalí museum in Figueres, Spain. Five of the original band members were art majors, and we worshipped Dalí: we thought of ourselves as surrealists. I worked with Dalí for four days in New York in 1974. He did a sculpture of my brain. It's a brain with a chocolate eclair running down the back, and ants climbing all over it and spelling out "Dalí and Alice".