THE DALI THEATRE AND MUSEUM, FIGUERES, SPAIN, PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC ITS LATEST ACQUISITION MADE POSSIBLE BY THE DALI FOUNDATION. THE SMALL OIL ENTITLED 'GALA' COULD BE THE VERY FIRST PORTRAIT OF HIS WIFE GALA ELUARD. WHEN, IN 1929, DALI MET GALA, A STRONG IMPRESSION OF LOVE WAS PROVOKED, SO INTENSE THAT FROM THAT POINT ON HE WOULD NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM HER, UNTIL HER DEATH IN JUNE OF 1982. WIFE AND MUSE TO DALI, HER REAL NAME WAS ELENA IVANOVNA DIAKONOVA, SHE WAS A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN, TRANSGRESSIVE, WITH GREAT INTUITION, WHO RECOGNIZED ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE GENIUS WHEREVER SHE SAW IT AND THROUGHOUT HER LIFE EVEN BEFORE MEETING DALI, SHE WAS RELATED TO NUMEROUS INTELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS.
THE PAINTING WAS MADE STARTING FROM A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF GALA; A DETAILED PORTRAIT, WITH COLLAGE, FULL OF DETAILS, STARTING FROM THE SMOKE FROM A CIGARETTE, WHERE HE INTEGRATES THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE MOMENT, WHICH IS REPEATED OFTEN THOUGH-OUT HIS PAINTINGS MADE BETWEEN 1929 AND 1931: THE LOBSTER, THE BIRD, THE FIGURE OF THE GREAT MASTURBATOR, THE SHELLS, THE SQUIRREL, THE ANTS . . . ALL ACCOMPANYING GALA, WITH LONG HAIR; 'GALA THE IDEAL WOMAN'. ONE CAN READ, IN THE LOWER CENTRAL PART OF THE ARTWORK: 'POUR LOLIVETA SLAVADOR DALI 1931', OLIVETA, WAS ONE OF THE PET NAMES WITH WHICH DALI CALLED HIS MUSE. THE SMALL JEWEL LIKE OIL PAINTING CAN BE VIEW STARTING TODAY IN A MONTAGE DESIGNED SPECIALLY FOR THE HISTORIC EXHIBITION BY PEP CANALETA.
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