"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is the most celebrated Surrealist artist of the twentieth century and one of its most technically brilliant. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, he joined the Paris Surrealists in 1929, introducing his own paranoid-critical method - a systematic engagement with the unconscious that produced imagery of hallucinatory precision and enduring psychological power. His painting The Persistence of Memory (1931) remains one of the most recognised works in the history of art. Beyond painting, Dalí was a prolific printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker, producing graphic suites of the highest order across a career of six decades. His works are held in the permanent collections of MoMA New York, Tate Modern London, and the Reina Sofía Madrid, among many others.