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Salvador DALI  -  1904-1998      

Salvador Dali is one of the great names of the Surrealist movement. He studied at the Madrid academy. When he came to Paris in 1928 he met two other great artists, Picasso and MirĂ². He soon became a central figure of the Surrealists. Dali was a great admirer of Raphael. His large format paintings showing significant historical events and personalities like Christopher Columbus, Lenin or Wilhelm Tell, are like an hommage to the old masters. In 1933, Salvador Dali had his first one-man show in New York and in 1934 in London. In 1936 he was on the cover of Time Magazine. By then he was well-known with his excentric moustache. St. Petersburg in Florida has a great Dali museums. Another Dali museum was established in his Spanish home town, Figueras.
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Literature sources used for artist biographies:
  • Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
  • Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
  • Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
  • Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
  • Annual CWAJ catalogs