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Gala Dali sitting for a painting with Salvador. AFP via Getty Images. Gala Dalí (1894–1982) had a favorite quote she enjoyed repeating: “If, like me, you are neither a brain nor a beauty, ...
In "Dalíland," Gala (Barbara Sukowa), the wife of the famous surrealist, Salvador Dalí (Ben Kingsley), claims that people, "Look through me, like I'm not there," and the artist himself describes ...
“Gala is the only person I listen to,” Salvador Dalí once wrote of his wife, in a letter to a friend. “She alone can say what my future will be.” Gala Dalí moves onto center stage in ...
Richard Brody reviews “Dalíland,” a bio-pic directed by Mary Harron and starring Ben Kingsley as the Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.
In Surreal, Michèle Gerber Klein asks us to confront the unjust eclipse of Gala’s legacy by that of her husband, Salvador, whose career she brought to fruition. Gala Dalí wearing the "Shoe Hat ...
A still from the Giraffes on Horseback Salad trailer Goodby Silverstein & Partners. In 1937, Salvador Dalí conceived of a movie that would star the Marx Brothers against a bizarre, romantic ...
Salvador Dalí’s genius wasn’t in his art, it was in his branding. This year marks 120 years since the birth of a titanic figure now known as much for his outrageous antics as his surreal art.
That’s the central question of Michèle Gerber Klein’s biography of Gala Dalí, “Surreal.” Dalí was known as “the Mother of Surrealism,” the wife of Salvador, an adviser, a seductress.
Salvador Dalí painting the mythological figure of Medusa on the forehead of his wife, Gala Dalí, in 1942. Photo: Getty Images “Gala is the only person I listen to,” Salvador Dalí once wrote ...