Salvador Dalí at the Prado
Dalí stands before his painting Velázquez Painting the Infanta Margarita in the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory (1958), which is displayed in front of The Infanta Margarita (1656) by Diego Velázquez—Dalí’s favorite Spanish painter—at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain.
Painting Outdoors in Spain
Dalí paints on a canvas propped up on a chair outside his home.
Dalí’s Studio in Port Lligat
Dalí’s art studio at the home he and Gala purchased in Port Lligat, Spain.
Salvador and Gala Dalí
Dalí and Gala sit in the foreground of a photo taken at their home in Port Lligat, Spain.
Dalí’s Studio in Port Lligat
Another view of Dalí’s studio in Port Lligat, Spain shows a mannequin with a mask, a sea urchin image on the easel, a cloud-shaped lamp and a bubble-shaped mirror.
Gala’s Spoon Chair
Dalí designed this throne for his wife, who kept it in her castle in Púbol, Spain.
Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney
Dalí and Disney worked on an animated movie together. Both men were seen as visionaries, or people who made big changes, in their lifetimes.
Destino Poster
Destino was the film project Dalí and Disney collaborated on.
Salvador Dalí and Reynolds Morse
Dalí, his pet ocelot and Reynolds Morse, the collector and founder of The Dalí Museum, prepare for the Dalí Retrospective Exhibit in New York City, 1965.
Salvador and Gala at Rizzoli
Salvador and Gala Dalí at the Rizzoli Bookstore in New York City, 1968.
Salvador and Gala in New York
Dalí and Gala look in a shop window during a visit to New York.
Salvador and Gala in Virginia
During World War II, Salvador and Gala fled to Virginia in the United States, where they are pictured playing chess together.
Salvador and Gala with Caresse Crosby
In Virginia, Salvador and Gala stayed with American actress Caresse Crosby. Here, they sit in her library with a cow on the floor between them.
Gala with Her Siblings
Gala was born in Kazan, Russia, in 1894. This photo shows her (left) with her three siblings.
Portrait of Gala
Gala’s birth name was Helena Deluvina Diakonoff. She first met Dalí in 1929 while she was married to a Surrealist writer, Paul Éluard.