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Salvador Dali:
- Apparition of the Face of Aphrodite -- 1500 pcs, Salvador Dali
- Galatea de las Esferas -- 500 pcs, Salvador Dali
- Persistence of Memory -- 1000 pcs, Salvador Dali
Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres in Spain in 1904 and devoted himself to drawing and painting from a very early age. In Madrid, he was a friend of the poet García Lorca and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, with whom he carried out numerous very avant-garde artistic projects. Years later, Dalí went to live in Paris, where he met other surrealist painters and writers. In 1929, he met the woman who was to become his model, muse and companion: Gala. At the outset of World War II, Dali and Gala went to the United States, where his painting found much success and he became one of the most famous painters of his time. In 1948, he returned to Europe, spending long periods in Portlligat, on the coast of Catalonia. In the 1970s, Dalí created and inaugurated the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres, where a great many of his works are on permanent exhibit and where he was buried in 1989.
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