14.1.09

Is that an egg on the roof?


SALVADOR DALI, the surrealist Spanish artist, painted melting watches, broken bodies propped upon crutches and swans with elephant reflections. The centrepiece at his museum in Figueres in north-east Spain is a car with a waterfall inside, which turns on every half an hour, soaking the two dummies in the seats.
So we had expected his home to be weird. Casa Dali sits by a quiet bay near the fishing village of Cadaques, two hours' drive north of Barcelona on the Spanish Costa Brava (Wild Coast). In the last 50 years, it has become a place of pilgrimage for art lovers, especially since Dali died in 1982. (More...)


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