The house is one of the Dali triad that includes the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres and the Gala Dali Castle-House Museum in Pubol, but Portlligat is where the famous Surrealist lived from 1930 to 1982 and where he created works like The Madonna of Portlligat.
The forest landscapes are fabulously rendered, the characters innovative -- ranging from huge, shape-shifting beasts to floppy little Dali-esqe forest dwellers.
It is a place where architects are regularly commissioned to build the Dali-esque.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection houses a first-class collection of 20th-century art from Dali to Duchamp in a beautiful white palazzo on the Grand Canal, and the Punta della Dogana, a contemporary art centre at the tip of Dorsoduro, contains the modern art collection of Francois Pinault, the CEO of Kering, which owns labels like Gucci and Saint Laurent.
New York (CNN) -- A Salvador Dali painting stolen from a Manhattan art gallery last week has been returned to the United States, New York police said.
Gone all weekend, we returned to a downstairs master bedroom whose walls looked like a Salvador Dali painting, water cascading behind bubbled-up paint.
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Late-era surrealist paintings by Salvador Dali and bronze sculptures by Henry Moore continued to hold bidders' interest, though.
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He is organizing the next National Beard and Mustache Championships in New Orleans in September, where people vie in various facial-hair matches such as best Dali mustache or freestyle beard.
Following the quake, investigators in Yunlin county discovered that three crumbled structures had been erected by a construction company that had used empty plastic bottles and tin cans as filler to save on concrete and bricks. (The owner was arrested.) In Dali, a massive apartment block suffered major damage: one of the 11-story buildings was uprooted from the ground and fell backward.
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New York (CNN) -- Exactly eight months after the "brazen" theft of a Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan art gallery, a Greek national was indicted Tuesday on a grand larceny charge, according to the New York County District Attorney's Office.
There is an ever-present sense of the horizon throughout the house, a straight line that Dali must have felt he could fall off of.
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