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Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, a small town in the north of Catalonia, in the family of a notary. Much of Dalí’s youth was spent in the family’s house near the sea in Cadaqués. He communicated with the local fishermen and workers. Perhaps this influenced his talent and became a prerequisite for weaving mystical themes into his art.

Dali’s early works quite eloquently testify to his talent, and the Pichet family, with whom Dali’s parents maintain friendly relations, advise the father of the young talent to teach him drawing. In the late 1920s he discovered the work of Sigmund Freud and met French surrealists in Paris. Soon he becomes one of its most prominent representatives. Vivid theatricality and ability to amaze, combined with technical virtuosity, make him a controversial figure.

In 1929 he met Gala. He fell madly in love with her. The marriage to Galya awakened in Dali an inexhaustible fantasy and new inexhaustible energy. A fruitful period began in his work. At this time, his personal surrealism completely prevailed over the norms and attitudes of the rest of the group and led to a complete break with Breton and other surrealists.

He bought for Gala a castle in Pubol, near Figueres, decorating it with his paintings and providing every comfort and luxury. She was needed physically and morally, so when Gala died in June 1982, the artist suffered a heavy loss. After her death, his health began to deteriorate rapidly. Dali almost stopped appearing in society.

The last years of his life, the artist spent all alone in the castle of Gala in Pubol, where Dali moved after her death. In 1984, Dali suffered serious burns during a fire in the castle, after which his health deteriorated further.  Salvador Dali, Marquis of Pubol, died on January 23, 1989 from cardiac arrest. Salvador Dali lies unburied, as he bequeathed, in a crypt in his Dali Theater Museum in Figueres. He left his fortune and his works to Spain.