Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Artists

Active in Paris: 1948–1968

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was a Spanish Surrealist artist known for his dreamlike imagery, technical precision, and theatrical public persona. Active within the Paris Surrealist circle from the late 1920s, he became internationally famous through works such as The Persistence of Memory.

After the Second World War, Salvador Dalí returned to Europe in 1948 and resumed visiting Paris regularly, though he was no longer permanently based there. His principal residence became Port Lligat in Spain with periodic stays in Paris, New York, and later elsewhere in Europe.

In the late 1940s and 1950s he was in Paris quite frequently for:

• exhibitions and openings
• meetings with dealers and publishers
• social appearances
• collaborations in theatre, fashion, photography, and publishing
• major retrospective and commercial projects

A central figure in this postwar Parisian network was Pierre Argillet, with whom Dalí collaborated extensively from the late 1950s onward on illustrated books and print projects. Paris also remained important through galleries such as Galerie Rive Droite and the broader Left Bank literary and publishing world.

Artists

Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti
Barbara Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud
Max Ernst Max Ernst
Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle
Victor Brauner Victor Brauner

Those of Letters

André Breton André Breton
Henri Michaux Henri Michaux
Paul Éluard Paul Éluard
René Char René Char
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