{"id":773,"date":"2019-05-17T06:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T06:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshop.php-dev.in\/daliparis\/?page_id=773"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:46:57","slug":"gala-dali-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.daliparis.com\/en\/salvador-dali-en\/gala-dali-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvador Dal\u00ed and Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1557923537139{margin-top: 60px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”Gala, the ultimate muse of Salvador Dal\u00ed” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1558440358737{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}” el_class=”title-style”][vc_column_text]Gala, wife and muse to Salvador Dal\u00ed, was born in Russia on August 26, 1894. She was an inspiration to surrealist artists and was first married to the poet, Paul Eluard. She was also Max Ernst’s mistress.<\/p>\n

Dal\u00ed fell madly in love with her when he invited Eluard and Gala to Spain in the summer of 1929. Dal\u00ed wrote in\u00a0The Secret Life of Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/em>: “She was destined to be my Gradiva*, the one who moves forward, my victory, my wife.”<\/p>\n

They moved to the United States in the 40s. Gala played an essential role in Dal\u00ed’s success: she was the one who organized exhibitions, supervised sales of his paintings, managed meetings with journalists and photographers, arranged business agreements.<\/p>\n

In 1958, Dal\u00ed and Gala were married religiously in the \u00c0ngels chapel near Girona, and together, they created their surrealist house in Portlligat.<\/p>\n

In 1968, the painter bought a castle for Gala in P\u00fabol, and it was agreed that he would not visit her without previous written permission. Gala died in 1982 and was buried at the castle. In 1996, the castle became the Gala-Dal\u00ed Home Museum in P\u00fabol and was opened to the public. Gala put the genius to work and revealed Dal\u00ed to himself: “Gala discovers and brings me all of the essences that I convert into the honey of my thought in the busy hive of my brain. If it were not for Gala, today, the world would be without a genius: Dal\u00ed would not exist”.<\/p>\n

* This name comes from the title of a novel by W. Jensen, whose main character is Sigmund Freud: Gradiva is the heroine and she contributes to the psychological healing of the protagonist.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”25″ css=”.vc_custom_1558001538929{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”SEE MORE” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:38px|text_align:center|color:%23333333|line_height:40px” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”3″ el_width=”10″ css=”.vc_custom_1558440469028{margin-top: 15px !important;margin-bottom: 15px !important;}” accent_color=”#d83100″][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” gap=”10″ el_class=”bottom-boxes” css=”.vc_custom_1557988317691{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1558698735109{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}” el_class=”overlay-r dali-paris-box”]\n

Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/h6>\n

Dal\u00ed & Daum<\/h2>\n

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Gallery<\/h6>\n

Dal\u00ed Sculpture Collection<\/h2>\n

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E-tickets<\/h6>\n

Visit Dal\u00ed Paris!<\/h2>\n

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