Salvador Dali, Spanish Surrealist Artist: 'What's My Line' TV Show Mystery Guest

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- 1950s TV show appearance. Salvador Dali (Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol, 11 May 1904 – 23 Jan., 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts at Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents.

His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931, and is one of the most famous Surrealist paintings. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936- 1939) before leaving for the U.S. in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism and recent scientific developments...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD



- 'The Persistance of Memory,' 1931.




- Caresse Crosby with her whippet dog, Clytoris. Crosby was a friend of Dali, a wealthy American patron of the Lost Generation in Paris, and Inventor of the Modern Bra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosby





- Dali with his pet ocelot, 'Babou,' 1960s.