The Dalí Foundation, in Figueres, has acquired more than one hundred unpublished documents.
A cartoon Salvador Dalí drew for his ailing sister and an incomplete letter to the filmmaker Luis Buñuel stand out among the material, in which are also drawings, manuscripts and first editions of books related to the surrealist painter.
The Dalí Foundation, in Figueres, has acquired more than one hundred unpublished documents.
New drawings, manuscripts and photographs of Salvador Dali have joined the Museum in Figueres, whose director, Antoni Pitxot, highlighted the work done during the past two years to complete its acquisition.
Investment in these purchases by the Dalí Foundation has amounted to 400,000 euros, confirmed Pitxot, who praised the value of this material to delve into the different artistic facets of the painter.
The acquired works are originals, mostly unpublished, mostly drawings, manuscripts and photographs, and funds for the purchase came exclusively from the Foundation, Pitxot Antoni has said.
In addition, the Foundation also emphasized the importance of four documents. The first is a document that contains a copy of the French edition of Dali's poem 'Metamorfosi Narcís' (1937) and two pages of draft text.
Apart from this there are two manuscripts, plus various preparatory drawings of the oil of the Metamorfosi Narcís. The second is a document bound with parchment which consists of a copy number four of the French edition of "Ode to Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, published in 1938 by the editorial GLM. It is accompanied by two more handwritten pages and drawings, among which are two oil studies of 'The Old Age of William Tell'.
The third document is also a copy of the book by René Clevel 'Dalí ou l'anti-obscurantisme', 1931. It also includes a small study of the book 'Soft Construction with Boiled Beans' and a draft letter of Dalí‘s, possibly to André Breton.
The last is dated in the 30s and was bought at auction. It is the script for a show, it was never produced, based on vital issues of reflection of the painter: "The Angelus of Millet." The script is accompanied by preparatory drawings describing a couple of scenes.
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