Galarina.
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Title |
Galarina. |
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Creator |
Dali, Salvador (Spanish painter and printmaker, 1904-1989) |
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Date |
1944-1945 |
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Cultural Context |
Spanish
European
Western European |
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Style/Period |
Modern (styles and periods)
Modernist |
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Subject |
Portraits
Women
Spouses
Breasts
Shirts
Jewelry
Rings
Bracelets
Hairstyles |
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Description |
"Perhaps Dali's most honest appraisal of his Muse." (Caption); "[Dali] told his family about the portrait of Gala on which he had been working every day for six months. It was painted 'like a Vermeer', and everyone who saw it was 'deeply moved'. Dali said later that Galarina had taken him 540 hours to complete, and that the title was indebted to Raphael's La Fornarina. The painting, today in Dali's Theatre-Museum in Figueres, is certainly remarkable. It shows the Muse at her most willful, domineering. Also, with her defiantly exposed left breast, at her most brazenly physical. Looking back in 1956 over the twelve years in which he had known her, Reynolds Morse wrote that he had never once seen Gala relax. Greedy, demanding, critical, she was 'part tiger, part martyr, part mother, part mistress and part banker, a curious and inaccessible mixture', and so 'single-purposed' in the pursuit of her and Dali's interests that she had no real friends of her own. The picture tells it all." (Excerpt, p.488) |
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People Pictured |
Dalí, Gala |
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Material |
Oil on canvas
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Paint
Canvas |
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Measurements |
64.1 x 50.2 cm |
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Technique |
Oil painting (technique)
Painting (image-making) |
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Inscription |
Lower left corner: GALARINA |
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Work Type |
Oil paintings
Paintings
Portraits
Portrait paintings |
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Repository |
Teatre-Museu Dalí (Figueras, Spain) |
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Source |
Gibson, Ian. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1998. (Color plate XXXI) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Gibson courtesy: Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 2447-23.jpg |
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