Salvador Dalí, born in Figueres on May 11, 1904,... Lot 265

Salvador Dalí, born in Figueres on May 11, 1904, and died in the same city on January 23, 1989, is a Catalan painter, sculptor, engraver, screenwriter and writer of Spanish nationality. He is considered one of the main representatives of surrealism, and one of the most famous painters of the twentieth century. A very imaginative artist, he showed a notable tendency towards narcissism and megalomania, which allowed him to attract public attention, but irritated a part of the art world, which saw in this behavior a form of publicity that sometimes exceeded his work. Two museums were dedicated to him during his lifetime, the Salvador Dalí Museum and the Dalí Theatre-Museum. Dalí himself created the second, as a surrealist work in its own right.