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The Dali Picasso
Connection
In the spring of 1926, Dali visited Picasso's studio on his first trip
to Paris and saw the works Picasso was preparing for his summer
exhibition at Paul Rosenberg. After returning to Spain, Dali set
to work on an important group of paintings which reflected this
artistic encounter and marked a transition to artistic maturity.
In 1929, both Dali and Picasso participated in the project of the
Surrealists to bring the disruptive and creative power of dream
images into their works. In 1936, Dali and Picasso responded
simultaneously to the horrors of civil war in Spain with powerful
works dramatizing the anguish of human conflict.
In the 1940s, Dali and Picasso began to define diverging political
affinities, one to the left and one to the right. eir art converged
in an engagement with the great art of the past as they dealt with
the history of art's grandest aspirations and their own yearning
for artistic sovereignty in this era.
OPPOSITE LEFT: Femme dans un fauteuil rouge, 1929
Pablo Picasso © Salvador Dalí. Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí,
(Ar tist Rights Society), 2013 / Collection of the Salvador Dalí
Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2014.
OPPOSITE RIGHT: Apparatus and Hand, 1927
Salvador Dalí. ©2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Ar tists Rights
Society (ARS), New York / The De Menil Foundation,
Houston, Texas.
TOP: Self Por trait, 1921
Salvador Dali. © Salvador Dali. Fundación Gala-Salvador
Dali, (Ar tist Rights Society), 2014 / Collection of the
Salvador Dali Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2014.
BOTTOM RIGHT:
self Portr aIt wIth wIg, 1897
Pablo PIcasso. © 2014 estate of Pablo PIcasso / artIsts
rIghts socIety (ars) / collectIon of the Museu PIcasso,
barcelona, sPaIn, 2014.
BOTTOM LEFT: The Dali Museum is located at One Dali
Boulevard, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701. For additional
information contact 727-823-3767 or go to TheDali.org.
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