Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí was born in Figueras, Catalonia, on May 11, 1904, and died there on January 23, 1989. He enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid in 1921 and became a central figure of Surrealism, painting, writing, illustrating the works of Surrealist writers and poets, working on theatrical productions, and collaborating with Luis Buñuel on the film Un Chien andalou in 1929. From about 1948 he also treated religious subjects. A major retrospective opened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1941, and MoMA holds The Persistence of Memory (1931).