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Audience with Pope John XXIII. Is prohibited from showing a reproduction of Botticelli’s Venus transformed into an inverted mermaid – with a fish head and woman’s legs – on the façade of the pavilion. The rear wall presents Francesco Vezzoli’s work, which focuses on the celebrity cult. At the opening, the second and final issue of Dalí News is distributed.

1948
The book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship is published.

Dalí and Gala buy a small fisherman’s cottage in the village of Port Lligat outside Cadaqués. As late as the early 1970s, and at a time when arguably there was no opportunistic advantage, he continued the reaffirmation reactionary positions.

11.55
Short break

12.15
Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp.

Illustrates Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror. She brought me back to the light through the love she gave me, of which I could feel the emanations.
Salvador Dalí, Comment on devient Dalí (The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dalí), 1973

Dalí’s relationship to his family deteriorates. Dalí’s father disinherits his son entirely after seeing the book.

He drew upon the medium of cinema instead of theatre. Is expelled from the academy after calling his examiners in art theory incompetent:

I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by them. Says in an interview in The Herald Tribune Magazine that: “As a Renaissance man, I do not feel distant, as an artist, from the masses.

With scenic views and a forward-thinking spirit, it remains a cultural pillar in Stockholm.

Collection highlights

  • Modern masters: Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol.
  • Photography: Iconic images by Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, and Irving Penn.
  • Film: A curated selection of both vintage and contemporary cinema.
  • Temporary exhibitions: Ever-changing displays spotlighting avant-garde works by Swedish and international artists.
  • Family-friendly: Interactive activities designed to engage young visitors and future art lovers.

☕ Café and culinary views

After absorbing the museum’s visual energy, unwind at the café and restaurant overlooking Djurgården and Nybroviken.

moderna museet stockholm dali

It is the total freedom to be and the right to absolute dreaming.
Salvador Dalí, Comment on devient Dalí (The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dalí), 1973

1940

I try to create fantastic things, magical things, dreamlike things. Nothing indeed could contrast more violently with their British-style tailored suits and golf jackets than my velvet jackets and my flowing bow ties; nothing could be more diametrically opposed than my long tangled hair falling down to my shoulders and their smartly trimmed hair […].

Dalí’s contrarian position persisted well beyond the onset of the cold war. From Picasso to Niki de Saint Phalle, the museum unites international icons with Nordic innovators. The most beautiful and the most profound cultural revolutions were made without barricades, with the insurrectional violence animating solely the spirit, the master of space and time.
Salvador Dalí, Ma révolution culturelle (My Cultural Revolution), 1968.

The painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus is exhibited in Paris. It also experiments with the exhibition phenomenon itself, by juxtaposing a historical artist with a contemporary artist, Francesco Vezzoli.

The exhibition is divided into two rooms, separated by three doors. He has his first solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Goemans.

I assassinate him regularly, for the ‘Divine Dalí’ cannot have anything in common with this former terrestrial being.
Salvador Dalí, Alain Bosquet, Conversations with Dalí, 1969

1908
His sister Anna Maria is born.

I was the absolute monarch of the house.