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Salvador Dali
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Sept ans après le départ de Gala, son épouse, Salvador Dali s’éteint le 23 janvier 1989 à la Torre Galatea de Figueres (Espagne), Figueres, sa ville natale. Selon sa volonté, il y est inhumé près du théatre-musée qui porte son nom. L’homme, qui avait tant de fois évoquer dans son art la mort, le désir et la folie, repose sous une dalle qui ne porte aucune inscription (plaque sur un mur). En hommage, une fleur de tournesol, ouverte comme un soleil catalan.
"Là où passe la révolution culturelle doit pousser le fantastique. " - Salvador Dali
"A six ans je voulais être cuisinière. A sept ans Napoléon. Depuis, mon ambition n'a cessé de croître comme ma folie des grandeurs." - Salvador Dali
"Durant trois ou quatre années, Dali incarnera l'esprit surréaliste et le fera briller de tous ses feux comme seul pouvait le faire quelqu'un qui n'avait en rien participé aux épisodes parfois ingrats de sa gestation." - André Breton
"Avida Dollars ! Je me moque bien des calomnies que peut lancer contre moi André Breton qui ne me pardonne pas d'être le dernier et le seul surréaliste." - Salvador Dali
"Salvador Dali est un peintre de cravates." - Joan Miro
"La seule différence entre moi et un fou, c’est que je ne suis pas fou." - Salvador Dali
Notes of biography
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in Figueras (Spain) in 1904. From 1921 until 1925, he studied at the Academy San Fernando of Madrid; he became friend with the poet Federico García Lorca and the film-maker Luis Buñuel there. His first personal exhibition is organized in 1925 (Gallery Dalmau, Barcelona), exhibition in which Picasso and Miro began being interested in his works.
Dali was influenced at first by the futurism, then by the cubism (1925). In April 1926, Dali made his first journey in Paris, where he visited Picasso. During a second journey in Paris in 1929, on the occasion of the shooting of the film of Buñuel "Un chien Andalou” (Dali is a co-writer), Miro introduced him into the surrealist group. Dali met André Breton and Gala, his future wife and muse (she was first Paul Eluard’s wife). He adhered to the surrealist group in 1929. Dali was then interested in the psychoanalytical theories of Freud and he worked out his method "paranoiac-critic". A that time, He painted, dreamlike and fantastical spaces full of symbolic elements: soft watches, crutches, fantastic animals, distorted persons. Although he was excluded in 1934 from the surrealists group, he still participated in the demonstrations and the surrealist exhibitions. Dali reinterpreted famous works, as the Angelus of Millet, several versions of which he gave. Breton nicknamed him "Avida Dollars"!
After the Spanish civil war, he committed himself politically behind Franco. With the 40s, he wanted to get closer to the reality and he wished to have a more classic pictorial expression, without neglecting however to print in his works his personal whim.
The recurring subjects in the work paints, as in the work etched, were woman, sex, religion, and battles. Dali gave himself in spectacle throughout his career, mixing the art and the life, staging constantly.
After ten years of efforts, Dali opened his own museum: in 1974, took place the inauguration of the Teatro Museo Dali. The last passion of Dali was the stereoscopic painting (1975) and he presented one of his first stereoscopic work in New York in 1978.
Salvador Dali which qualified himself "cannibal", “megalomaniac “and “polymorphic pervert ", died in Barcelona (Spain) in 1989.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Dali et les livres », par Eduard Fornés et autres, Editorial Mediterrània, Barcelone, 1984
*« Dali : Gravures et techniques mixtes 1924-1980 », Michler-Löpsinger, Prestel Verlag, 1994
*« Dali : Lithographies et bois gravés 1956-1980 », Michler-Löpsinger, Prestel Verlag, 1995
*« Graphic Works », A. Field, Ed. The Salvador Dali Archives, New York, 1984
* « Dali - L'oeuvre peint », Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, 2 Vol., Ed. Taschen, 2007
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Dali, Dali, Dali... », M. Gérard, Draeger, 1974
- « 50 secrets magiques », Dali, Edita, 1985
- « Dali : l’oeuvre et l’homme », R. Descharnes, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Ed. Edi
- « Dali », Luis Romero, Ed. Cercle d'Art, 2003
- « Portable Dali », Robert Hughes, Universe Publishing, 2003
- « Dali : The hard and the soft », Robert Descharnes, Ed. Eccart, 2004
- « S. Dali », Tim McNeese, coll. Great Hispanic Heritage, Chelsea House Ed., 2006
- « Dali : The late work », Elliott H. King, Yale University Press, 2010
- « Le monde de Dali », Montse Aguer, Ed. Larousse, 2010
- « Salvador Dali - The making of an artist », Catherine Grenier, Ed. Flammarion, 2012
To read from the artist :
- « Métamorphose de Narcisse », Editions Surréalistes, 1937
- « Journal d'un génie », collection L'Imaginaire, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1994
Website :
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Stamp by Salvador Dali
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist's handwritten document
Private collection / This document is not for sale
+ Listen
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Salvador Dali
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Sept ans après le départ de Gala, son épouse, Salvador Dali s’éteint le 23 janvier 1989 à la Torre Galatea de Figueres (Espagne), Figueres, sa ville natale. Selon sa volonté, il y est inhumé près du théatre-musée qui porte son nom. L’homme, qui avait tant de fois évoquer dans son art la mort, le désir et la folie, repose sous une dalle qui ne porte aucune inscription (plaque sur un mur). En hommage, une fleur de tournesol, ouverte comme un soleil catalan.
"Là où passe la révolution culturelle doit pousser le fantastique. " - Salvador Dali
"A six ans je voulais être cuisinière. A sept ans Napoléon. Depuis, mon ambition n'a cessé de croître comme ma folie des grandeurs." - Salvador Dali
"Durant trois ou quatre années, Dali incarnera l'esprit surréaliste et le fera briller de tous ses feux comme seul pouvait le faire quelqu'un qui n'avait en rien participé aux épisodes parfois ingrats de sa gestation." - André Breton
"Avida Dollars ! Je me moque bien des calomnies que peut lancer contre moi André Breton qui ne me pardonne pas d'être le dernier et le seul surréaliste." - Salvador Dali
"Salvador Dali est un peintre de cravates." - Joan Miro
"La seule différence entre moi et un fou, c’est que je ne suis pas fou." - Salvador Dali
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