ART MARKET NEWS: Despite the flatlined economy, the art market has been roaring. In the first half of this year, total worldwide art sales hit a record of $4.3 billion ($5.8 billion), up 34 percent from 2010, according to art industry insiders. The same report states that 663 works jumped past the million-euro mark during that period, 200 more than in the first six months of 2008, which once held the record.
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.
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by Salvador Dali
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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Sotheby's announces largest sales growth in auction history! Part of the success is attributed to works by Salvador Dali.
From Sothbey's: Dali's masterpiece, Portrait de Paul Eluard was pursued by no fewer than nine prospective buyers and soared above the pre-sale estimate to sell for $21.7 million. It tripled the record established for Dali set earlier in the week and also became a new record price for any Surrealist work of art sold at auction.
Lady GaGa borrows another idea from Salvador Dali, The EGG. Here is an excerpt from Dali's biography: The egg is another common Dalíesque image. He connects the egg to the prenatal and intrauterine, thus using it to symbolize hope and love; it appears in The Great Masturbator and The Metamorphosis of Narcissus. The Metamorphosis of Narcissus also symbolized death and petrification.
Salvador Dali and his wife Gala emerge from the EGG
Lady Gaga arrives at the Grammys in an EGG
Salvador Dali - Geopoliticus Child
Dali used egss on architecture
The Egg from the painting: Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Lady Gaga appeard on the Jay Leno Show on 2/14/11 the day after the Grammy's. She started the interview by saying the Egg was not an egg, the disigner of it wanted to call it a vessel. later in the interview, she said, "the egg represents rebirth" a direct quote of Salvador Dali who talked about the Egg and the "Rebirth of Surrealism"
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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 **UPDATE: 2/11/11 This work SOLD! at auction for over 21 MILLION DOLLARS.**
Paul Eluard by Salvador Dali
Christies Auction House Reports:
Salvador Dalí's "Etude Pour 'Le Miel Est Plus Doux que le Sang'" Sold for $6,561,070, a record for the artist.
Surreal Day at the Beach by Dali
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Alan Cumming as Salvador Dali
Alan Cumming, who’s currently playing against type as a ruthless campaign manager on The Good Wife, will play Salvador Dali in an upcoming film.
The movie, directed by Australian Philippe Mora, will start shooting this summer, and it will be in 3D—the first time (we know of) that the technology will be used for a film focused on art instead of action.
Because it’s a film about Dali, one of (it not the) greatest surrealist artist, it won’t be your average biopic, but instead “a series of dream-like, fantasy sequences intersected with reality, [that are] profoundly evocative of Dali’s art.”
Alan Cumming
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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
Salvador Dali original work just sold at auction.
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.
Salvador Dali time warner center
NEW YORK (AP) - Sixteen monumental bronze sculptures by Surrealist artist Salvador Dali will be exhibited in the public spaces of New York’s Time Warner Center. “The Vision of a Genius” will run from Nov. 3 to April 30, 2011. Times Warner Center says it’s presenting the exhibition to enrich the cultural experience of its visitors. The center has an upscale shopping mall and hotel. Among the highlights is the 16-foot “The Persistence of Memory” and the 11-foot “Woman Aflame.” They’re owned by Italian modern art expert Beniamino Levi. The exhibition also features 40 Dali drawings and paintings. They belong to Enrique Sabater y Bonany, the late artist’s private secretary from 1968 to 1981
The New Salvador Dali Museum is set to open on Jan 11th 2011. Read more about it, click image to the right---->
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From the NY Times ★ High Museum of Art: ‘Dalí: The Late Work,’through Jan. 9. The belief that late Dalí is bad Dalí, and most Dalí is late, is once more disproved — this time by a sprawling show that will not travel. It affirms that Salvador Dalí was some kind of genius with supernal depictive skills and a desperate need to be current, which made him a precursor of Pop, Performance and Pictures art. His self-degrading hucksterism is evident here, along with his willingness to try anything, be it jewelry or holograms. But he is at his feverish best in his paintings, which encompass his faith in God and science, his rivalry with Abstract Expressionism and his determination to modernize Renaissance space. The show is well worth the trip to Atlanta. 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta , (404) 733-4444 Update: The museum will add the best known Dali work to it's exhibit on Nov 16th. "The Persistence of Memory" will be a big hit for sure!
Vancouver City Dance to perform The Dali Universe
Vancouver City Dance to perform The Dali Universe starting Sept 16th 2010
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Rick Steves visits Salvador Dali's hometown. Click here to read his full page story about his travels
Rick Steves visits Dali
Rick Steves visists Spain
Salvador Dali's interpretation of Rembrandts Self Portrait
Georgina Adam the editor at large for the Artnewspaper writing for the Financial Times states the art market is back in gear. Adams points to four items of interest to support her claim that the art markets are rebounding. We have seen much positive growth over the past year, and the interest continues. Much of this growth has come at the highest end of market sectors and it has yet to trickle down to the middle markets.
Adams notes the large number of sales and exhibition scheduled around the world, strong interest in an international art conference in Luxembourg, the growing debate on living artists rights, and of course where there is money, there is growth in underworld interest with fakes. All of these items show an interest in the art markets by governments, the public, dealers, museum professionals and criminals.
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Salvador Dalí Sculpture Stolen from Belfortmuseum in Belgium
Salvador Dalí's home town to be recreated in China
Developer to build imitation version of Cadaqués in Xiamen Bay, to the astonishment of residents of the Costa Brava. Full Story
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Xiamen Bay China
Dalí: The Late Work A show at the High Museum August 7, 2010 through January 9, 2011 The High will be the sole venue for the first exhibition to focus on Dalí's art after 1940. The exhibition, featuring more than 100 works including 40 paintings and a related group of drawings, prints and other Dalí ephemera, will explore the artist's enduring fascination with science, optical effects and illusionism, and his surprising connections to artists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning.
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Workers lower a painting titled "Ecumenical Council" today at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. The painting is one of 18 items that will be on loan to High Museum in Atlanta.
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989). Autumnal Cannibalism, 1936. Oil on canvas. 65.1 x 65.1 cm (26 x 26 in.). Purchased 1975. Tate Modern, London.
SALVADOR DALI SETS NEW RECORD AT SOTHBYS!
A record price for a Salvador Dali was reached with 5.7 million dollars for his "Spectre du soir sur la plage." The previous Dali record was four million dollars.
Spectre du soir sur la plage by Salvador Dali
Sotheby's auctioneer. Final hammer price for Dali 5.7 Million!
Celestial Elephant
Salvador Dali sculpture decorates the Westminster Bridge in the UK
Visitors put gallery in the big time ROBIN USHER
April 2, 2010 .VICTORIANS are among the world's most culturally aware people, if the popularity of the National Gallery of Victoria is any guide.
An international survey by the London Art Newspaper found the NGV was the 20th most attended art gallery in the world in 2009 with total attendances of nearly 1.6 million people, up from 25th in 2008.
This makes it Australia's most popular and puts it ahead of the Guggenheim in New York, Tate Britain, Holland's Van Gogh Museum and Moscow's Kremlin museums.
The NGV's achievement is very much a home-grown success. All of the more popular museums are in cities with populations exceeding 10 million with huge numbers of international tourists.
Arts Minister Peter Batchelor says about 75 per cent of the NGV's visitors are from Melbourne and regional Victoria. ''This means that by any standards the NGV enjoys one of the highest community participation rates in the world,'' he said.
The world's most popular museum was the Louvre in Paris, which had 8.5 million visitors, followed by the British Museum (5.57 million), New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (4.9 million) and London's National Gallery (4.78 million).
The Art Gallery of NSW was ranked 29th with 1.313 million visitors. The Queensland Art Gallery, combined with the Gallery of Modern Art, came 43rd with 1 million.
NGV director Dr Gerard Vaughan said the success was built around the attraction of the Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibitions, which had become ''a major cultural event'' since 2004.
But this was supported by a range of shows. Out of 22 exhibitions at the NGV last year, only four had entrance fees. ''We have also started turning over the permanent hang in our galleries, so people are always likely to find something new.''
Last year's masterpiece show, Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire, was the world's 44th most popular with 332,000 visitors and he expects this year's show from Frankfurt would also appeal strongly with such popular artists as Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, Van Gogh and Degas.
Dr Vaughan predicted that Canberra's National Gallery of Australia would rise in next year's rankings from its position of 84 (545,000 visitors) on the back of the exhibition from Paris's Musee d'Orsay, which is Australia's most popular with the 400,000th visitor expected today.
Simon Cowell wants a Salvador Dali theme wedding.
SIMON COWELL OF AMERICAN IDOL FAME IS A SALVADOR DALI FAN.
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We continue to see Dali exhibits announced worldwide!
Dali’s Christ to go on loan to the US for five months
Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross pictured at the reopening of Kelvingrove
Published on 2 Mar 2010
Less than four years after it reopened to the public, one of Scotland’s major visitor attractions is sending its star asset out on loan.
Salvador Dali’s iconic Christ of St John of the Cross, the most famous painting in Glasgow’s museums and galleries, will leave the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum for a five-month trip to the US.
The painting, bought along with the copyright to its image by the city in 1952, will be at the centre of a major Dali exhibition at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
It was revealed last week that the Atlanta museum is also to stage a major display of Italian paintings from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland later this year.
The Dali will be absent from the Kelvingrove from August 7 this year until January 2, 2011. When it returns, the masterpiece will be hung in a different spot.
The painting currently hangs in a corner at the end of a long first floor gallery: a position that has attracted criticism and can lead to congestion in the museum as people gather to look at what is probably the institution’s leading art exhibit.
No details of its new position have been released, but it will “better reflect the position of the painting as one of the star exhibits of the Kelvingrove”, a source said.
Glasgow will receive a fee of £25,000 for the loan and, because the city owns the painting’s copyright, is expecting to earn revenue from merchandising sales on its trip to the southern state. Culture and Sport Glasgow, which runs the city’s museums and galleries, also hopes to learn more about the painting when it comes under expert curatorial eyes at the High Museum.
Bailie Liz Cameron, the chair of CSG, said: “Christ of St John of the Cross will be the star attraction at this major exhibition in one of the United States’ most important cultural institutions. In exchange for loaning one of our cultural gems, we will learn more about this outstanding work and look forward to its return, when it will be hung elsewhere in Kelvingrove, allowing its majesty to be truly appreciated.”
The Atlanta exhibition will focus on the late works of Dali and will be built around a group of significant oil paintings and other works from the Salvador Dali Museum in St Petersburg, Florida, with additional paintings from private lenders and institutions including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, the Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali, which manages a series of museums and collections, and other museums in Europe, Japan and the USA.
For its journey across the Atlantic, the Dali will be packed in a high-specification case with environmental controls, paid for by the High Museum.
Although the Christ may seem to be a permanent fixture in Glasgow galleries, it has been out on loan 10 times since 1951, but only once since 1980, when it appeared at the National Gallery in London in 2000.
Dr Ellen McAdam, the acting head of Glasgow Museums, said: “We’re delighted to be working with the High and look forward to developing a lasting relationship which will be very beneficial to both parties.”
“While the Dali is away, we will not be short of attractions at Kelvingrove. The landmark Glasgow Boys exhibition opens in April, showcasing the largest ever retrospective of their works, and we welcome Titian’s Diana and Acteon in July.
“We’re also working in partnership with the National Galleries and National Museums on other significant loans, which we hope will bring other masterpieces to Glasgow.”
But the loan has not pleased everyone. Julian Spalding, art critic and former director of Glasgow’s galleries and museums, said lending the Dali out for £25,000 amounted to “prostituting art”. He said: “I am not against museums earning money from the richness of their collections, but earning money from the stars is a different sort of matter.
“The Louvre lent to Atlanta, but they lent stuff that was basically from their stores. They didn’t lend the Mona Lisa.”
MEXICO CITY – The work and life of Spanish surrealism genius Salvador Dali, who died 21 years ago, is being remembered in the southeastern Mexican city of Merida with an exhibition of 93 of the artist’s engravings.
“Dali en Merida. Las miradas del sueño” (Dali in Merida: Views of a Dream) will be held at Merida’s Olimpo Cultural Center, where the public will be able to enter free until March 23, municipal culture director Roger Metri told Efe.
Present at the ceremony to open the exhibit on Saturday were Merida Mayor Cesar Bojorquez Zapata and the director of the Museo de Artes del Grabado a la Estampa Digital in La Coruña, Rocio Hermo, among other figures, Metri said.
The works come from the artistic collection of the La Coruña art museum’s foundation, an organization that is collaborating with the Merida city authorities to sponsor the exhibition.
The show is divided into three sections: “The Divine Comedy,” comprised of 56 pieces that Dali prepared for the Italian Parliament in 1960, all of which were inspired by the writings of Dante Alighieri; “Fables of La Fontaine,” with 12 works prepared in 1974; and “The capricious dreams of Pantagruel de Rabelais,” containing 25 fanciful pieces created in 1973.
Last year, the Olimpo Cultural Center hosted the work of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in an exhibit titled “Picasso, multiple beauty,” which attracted 65,000 visitors, and his countryman Francisco de Goya in the exhibit “Goya in Merida, the monsters of Reason,” attended by 40,500 people.
The organizers of “Dali in Merida” hope to exceed the number of visitors attending the previous two exhibits.
Simultaneously, courses on engraving, along with lectures, guided tours and the “Buñuel y Dali” film series will be offered to the public.
The city of Merida spent 1.2 million pesos ($96,000) to set up the exhibition.
"Dante Purified" from Divine Comedy by Dali
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Last year, more than 7000 South Australians visited The National Gallery of Victoria's Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire exhibition, paying $150,000 in ticket sales alone.
The comment from local reporters in Austrailia: "1 out of every 8 people in Sudney, stopped what they were doing, and went to the Dali exhibit"
Daddy Longlegs of the evening – Hope! 1940 oil on canvas
Destino / Salvador Dali / Disney
Dayton gets Dali's 'Destino' In 1945, Salvador Dali was working eight-hour days at the studios of Walt Disney, whom he considered a great American surrealist. After eight months, there were 20 seconds of film, drawings, storyboards and paintings. “Destino,” a sad Mexican ballad about lovers destined to miss each other, did not see production because of World War II economics. It was resurrected about 50 years later by Disney's nephew, the late Roy Disney.
“Destino” is on view through April 4 at the Dayton, Ohio, Art Institute at 456 Belmonte Park N. The exhibit includes eight Dali prints made for the film. It has an operatic soundtrack, many morphing figures, hints of Pygmalion, time-crossed lovers, stylized aliens and machines and — naturally — melting clock faces. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, until 8 p.m. Thursday; noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. www.daytonartinstitute.org.
The Carnegie Museum is trying to figure out how to display this large Dali work.
"Theseus and the Minotaur" is a large stage curtain created by Salvador Dali –
on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
It's almost surreal, the amount of art-lover interest and curatorial attention the work of Salvador Dalí has commanded since his death in 1989.
The High Museum of Art will be adding to that with an exhibition that it's announcing Wednesday, "Dalí: The Late Work," to run Aug. 7 through Jan. 9, 2011. Organized by the High, which will be the show's only venue, the exhibit will be the first to focus specifically on the Spanish surrealist's art after 1940.
Featuring more than 40 paintings and a related group of drawings, prints and other Dalí ephemera, the show will emphasize how Dalí transitioned from the surrealist movement of the 1930s to works simultaneously inspired by the old masters and the contemporary world in the last half of his career. This reinvention began in 1941 when Dalí embraced Catholicism and proclaimed himself a classicist.
"Dalí: The Late Work" will also examine his fascination with science, optical effects and illusionism, and his connections to artists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning.
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Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Nu dans la plaine de Rosas signed and dated 'Gala Salvador Dalí 1942' (lower right) Painted in 1942
Christies is having great success with Dali works.
Price Realized: $4,002,500
Estimate: $2,000,000 - $3,000,000
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3 November 2009 New York, Rockefeller Plaza
The Labyrinth
New Exhibition Opening Friday, November 13, 2009 At The Dalí Museum
Important limited edition works on display are Dalí’s Alchemy of the Philosophers, published in 1976. This rarely viewed and exceptional example of Dalí’s ambitious book projects of the 1970s was painstakingly produced over a period of four years. An elaborate leather case houses ten original dry point etchings brilliantly colored with lithography and decorated with precious and semiprecious stones illustrating selected alchemists’ writings on the transmutation of base metals into silver and gold. The first gallery is dedicated to this piece alone.
Ask how you can own one of these valuable hand signed works by Salvador Dali. Call 800-999-DALI and ask for Dan Ext. 204
With Top Quality Offerings, Sotheby's Nets $181 Million
NEW YORK — The stunning performance of Impressionist and Modern art in Sotheby’s Wednesday sale where 56 paintings, drawings and sculptures brought just over $181 million can leave no one in doubt that the art market is as vigorous as it ever was before last year’s financial troubles.
For the first time since the autumn of 2008, an auction house was offering a significant number of top quality paintings and sculptures in one of the two areas that matter most in the art market.
“Girafe en feu” (Giraffe on Fire), a large gouache on paper signed by Salvador Dalí in 1937 belongs to the early phase of Surrealism, rarely seen at auction these days. Sotheby’s gave the rare work a $150,000 to $200,000 estimate. Obviously too low, it could easily have been doubled. But the best specialists never imagined that it might end up at $1.87 million, and set an auction record for any work on paper by Dalí.
Da Vinci
Dali was influenced by the great masters and often used icons from them in his work. Dali would have appreciated this story.
The Antique Trade Gazatte is reporting that a work sold at Christie's during the 1990's for $19,000.00 is now in fact considered by many to be a true Leonardo Da Vinci pen and chalk drawing on vellum. The painting had a German early 19th century attribution. Forensics have played a large role in the authentication and forensic processes, with a fingerprint on the painting matching one in the Vatican known to be Da Vinci's. Many Da Vinci scholars are now agreeing with the new findings. As a Da Vinci the painting could be worth $147 million
The Antique Trade Gazatte article is very interesting and delves into a fair amount of authentication issues. It is worth reading.
The Dali exhibition in Melbourne has been hailed a huge success, drawing more than 330,000 visitors over a period of almost four months.
The gallery extended its hours on the final weekend of the exhibition, including their first-ever 24 hour opening, which attracted 15,000 visitors.
NGV deputy director Frances Lindsay says the queues extended out the gallery's doors to the Princes Bridge, proving the success of the 24-hour opening.
"Everyone approached it with great good humour, so did the public, they were very patient, and they were thrilled to be there," she told ABC Radio's Jon Faine.
She says it was wonderful to see people come out overnight and queue in the street for up to three hours, despite recent media reports of CBD violence, to see the exhibition.
"We knew Dali would appeal to a younger audience, but it's one thing to know that, it's another thing to prove it," she said.
"One thing we recognised was that if we were going to bring in the younger people, then we had to have different sets of hours.
"It was a terrific experience, it does make the case for extended hours, for people who work, people who are on shift duty and young people who are out having a good time throughout the night."
Around 43,000 people visited the gallery for the "art after dark" program, involving late night openings and live music performances.
Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire was the second most attended Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition in the gallery's history.
The most popular exhibition at the gallery was The French Impressionists staged in 2004, which was attended by 370,000 people.
The exhibition was the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Dali to be staged in Australia and was exclusive to the National Gallery of Victoria.
Art Market on the Rise
The mid season contemporary art sale at Sotheby's New York this past week shows room for optimism in the market place. While not a huge success, the results were generally positive. Connect this to some of the more recent sales (such as the successful NY Asian sales), although a smaller in scope, the underlying fundamentals appear to be headed in the right direction.
The sale totaled $5.54 million. 313 lots were offered and 235 sold for a 75.1% sell through rate. The top lot was an Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Can estimated to sell between $250,000.00 and $350,000.00 and sold for $374,500.00 including buyers premium. The top 10 purchasers revealed purchasers from the US (6), Asian (2) and European trade (1) with one just listed as private.
Judith Roth, Head of the Fine Arts Department at Sotheby's stated
Rare Dali Photo
The image to the left was recently placed online and listed as a "Rare Dali Photo"
Taken at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City.
SALVADOR DALI WORKS DONATED TO THRIFT STORE
Salvador Dali works donated to a Thrift Store.
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"Little Ashes"
While Dali's reputation as a bizzare eccentric stays in tact, the critic does not have nice things to say about the film "Little Ashes". To view his comments, click the image to the left.
Bourgogne, France - The Chateau de Pommard in Bourgogne, France, welcomes twenty eight selected pieces amongst them sculptures and engravings by Salvador Dali, for show in the chateau grounds. The exhibition has been organised by the Stratton Foundation whose president is Beniamino Levi and Dali Espace, France’s largest museum dedicated to Dali Sculpture and artworks, based in Montmarte, Paris. On exhibition through November 25th 2009.
Dali in Melbourne
The sixth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria is also the first comprehensive display of Salvador Dali works to be staged in Australia. The exhibition will be open daily from 13 June until 4 October 2009.
Headlined as Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire, the exhibition brings together over 200 of Dali’s stunning works. The variety of media displayed include painting, drawing, sculpture, cinema and photography. Works have been compiled from the two largest collections of Salvador Dali in Spain and Florida. Feature pieces include the 1932 painting ‘Memory of the Child-Woman’ which caused much controversy in the Australian art world when first seen here in 1939. One of Dali’s most famous sculptures the ‘Lobster Telephone’ is on loan from the National Gallery of Australia.
Over 10.000 people saw Dali in Belgrade
June 10, 2009
The exhibition entitled "Dali and Magic of Illustration ", underway in the gallery of the Spanish Institute in Belgrade until June 14, has been visited by over 10.000 people so far. As the Institute communicated, numerous fans of one of the most famous artists of the 20 the century Salvador Dali came to see his works from the entire region. After Belgrade, the exhibition of 18 works, created in the last phase of Dali’s work, from 1950 till 1965, will be on display in Nis until June
Films about Dali
Looks like the two current films about Salvador Dali are on hold.
The first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Salvador Dal ever to be staged in Australia is coming exclusively to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) as the sixth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series.
Salvador Dal : Liquid Desire will bring together more than 200 stunning works by Salvador Dal in all media including painting, drawing, watercolour, etchings, sculpture, fashion, jewellery, cinema and photography.
The exhibition will be drawn from the two largest collections of Salvador Dal in the world, the Fundaci Gala-Salvador Dal in Figueres, Spain and the Salvador Dal Museum in St Petersburg, Florida.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE ART MARKET
Amid a grim economic environment, the art market let out a sigh of relief Monday as Christie's in Paris successfully auctioned $264 million of Impressionist and modern artworks collected by the late designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé.
Salvador Dali has strong showing at auction.
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7 November 2008 New York, Rockefeller Plaza
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$80,000.00
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$90,000 - $130,000
Rob Pattison as Salvador Dali
The Film "Little Ashes" is set to open soon, and will feature Rob Pattinson as the young Salvador Dali. The initial reveiws look good. If you watch actual footage with Dali in past interviews and then watch Pattinsons performance, it is clear the actor was not going for a dead on recreation of Dali, but more the feel of Dali or the atmosphere of Dali. In addition to the "LIttle Ashes" film, there are many others in the works and being talked about.
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Salvador Dali Exhibit Oct 2008
Salvador Dalí’s interest in mythology developed from his readings of Sigmund Freud, who looked to the myths of the past in order to understand fundamental principles of the human psyche. After reading Freud, Dalí wrote that he was “seized with the real vice of self-interpretation, not only of my dreams but of everything that happened to me, however accidental it might seem at first glance.” Seeing how Freud drew on his knowledge of classical mythology in his psychoanalytic theories, Dalí constructed his own artistic identity by employing his understanding of these myths and symbols in his art and writing. In his autobiography, The Secret Life (1942), Dalí borrows from myth and legend to create a fantastic persona, employing familiar myths in order to recast his life, obsessions and neuroses. For Dalí, these myths allowed him to make the personal appear universal, and they provided opportunities for powerful analogies. By alluding to mythic figures such as Oedipus and Narcissus, Dalí could exaggerate and recast his troubled relationship with his father and his tendency towards megalomania, bringing his personal battles to a universal stage.
Located at 1000 Third Street South in downtown St. Petersburg, Fla., the Salvador Dalí Museum holds the pre-eminent American collection of the artist’s work. The Museum, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007, is sponsored in part by the Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Department, the City of St. Petersburg, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tony Hawk and other celebs enjoy the works of Dali. Here we see Tony with the owner of the Salvador Dali Society.
Antonio Banderas buys Salvador Dali work at Charity Event.
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Antonio Banderas and his wife, Melanie Griffith, paid $50,000 for works by Joan Miro and Salvador Dali at a charity event this week, an auction official said.
"They bought the two works for a price much higher than their commercial value because the proceedings of the auction went to UNICEF," Denise Ratinoff, head of the auction house, told The Associated Press by telephone.
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, center, shakes hands with Spanish actor Antonio Banderas at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007, accompanied by Banderas' wife Melanie Griffith, left. (AP Photos/Santiago Llanquin) (Santiago Llanquin - AP)
"It was virtually a donation to UNICEF," she said Wednesday. "And it helped a lot, because their presence in the auction made many other people also pay steeply for what they purchased."
Banderas, 47, has starred in the films "Evita" and "The Mask of Zorro." He voiced the Puss in Boots character in "Shrek 2" and "Shrek the Third." Griffith, 50, was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1988's "Working Girl."
Ratinoff said the etchings purchased by the couple were Miro's "San Lazaro et Ses Amis" and Dali's "Rosy Horse."
They were in Chile to promote Banderas' fragrance Blue Seduction.
Their activities also included a luncheon with President Michelle Bachelet, with whom "we talked about politics, movies, life," according to Banderas.
Our Experience at the Dali Paintings & Film Exhibit at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
We recently visited the Dali "Painting & Film" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The exhibit runs from Oct. 14th 2007 through Jan 6th 2008
My Experience at the exhibit.
I was struck right away by the large banner outside the exhibit. The Persistence of Memory image adorns the front of the LACMA building and is quite impressive. I was personally moved by the image displayed in such a public manner, because I have been privleaged to be able to broker the rare hand signed original lithographs of "The Persistence of Memory".
LACMA Dali Exhibit in Los Angeles CA 2007/2008
The exhibit features some of Salvador Dali's most talked about works on canvas, paper and in film.
The well known Alfred Hitchcock film "Spellbound" features a dream sequence that was designed by Salvador Dali. Alfred Hitchcock needed a dream sequence for him film, and at the time, the special effects people wanted to use the standard foggy edge look that we have seen in many old films. Alfred Hitchcock did not feel that this captured the surreal state of a dream and called in Salvador Dali, who based much of his work on his own dreams. The dream sequence is featured on a large screen at the exhibit, and drew a large crowd.
I was also struck by the Andy Warhol film that features Salvador Dali being filmed as he does nothing more than stare into the camera. Warhol was known for his unusual films that featured someone sleeping or an object being filmed for many hours.
While all of this was very impressive, the work that captured visitors and myself was the famous "Persistence of Memory" oil painting.
The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dalí. (Spanish, 1904-1989). The Persistence of Memory. 1931. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm).
The Persistence of Memory is said to be the most talked about work of art in the 20th Century.
The definition of Salvador Dali is, "The creator of the Persistence of Memory".
Anyone that visits the exhibit will walk away wanting to own the works of Dali.
Much like Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Monet, Renoir and others, Dali's work will no longer be available for the general public to try and obtain. I feel fortunate that I have works available the bear Dali's signature and have been inspected by the Dali Archives and other Dali experts. The Persistence of Memory was used as the inspiration for the limited edition version lithograph.. There is only one authorized version of this work that was hand signed by Dali. The edition size was 502, the size was quite a bit larger than the original painting, 29 1/2 x 30 1/2, and because they were produced back in 1974 as part of a suite or set called "Changes in Great Masterpieces", very few are available today. The idea of the suite was for Dali to show his interpretation of Raphael, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Dali's own work as well. The change that Dali made while re-creating his own masterpiece, was to add a fourth clock to the image. Notice the image below.
The Persistence of Memory limited edition hand signed work from 1974. There are still a few of these available.
While the original oil is priceless and the property of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the limited edition version sells in the thousands of dollars. The price will change on a frequent basis becuase the sources for the work are existing collectors or someone that knew Dali and held on to a piece they obtained back in the 1970's. Take a look at what is happening with Chagall, Warhol, Picasso, Miro and others. Prices have increased over the past 7 to 10 years, at such a rate, they are now starting to level off. Salvador Dali seems to be starting the same process now, so this would be a good time to obtain works by the Master. If interested, keep in mind, prices are in the thousands and many were hand worked by Dali himself.
Note: We are the only broker that does not use an in-house appraisal or authenticity. We have all works examined by known Dali experts, who are not in the business of selling art. This is rule #1 when buying works by masters. You can apply the same rule to antiques or any other valuable. The seller of the work should not create an in house appraisal because it is a conflict of interest.
Feel free to contact me with any questions about The Persistence of Memory or any other Dali works you are interested in or already own. Call 888-888-DALI ext. 204 or ask for Dan.
The High will be the sole venue for the first exhibition to focus on Dalí's art after 1940. The exhibition, featuring more than 100 works including 40 paintings and a related group of drawings, prints and other Dalí ephemera, will explore the artist's enduring fascination with science, optical effects and illusionism, and his surprising connections to artists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning. 
