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Salvador Dalí

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Profession
Painter
Died
Jan 23, 1989
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
FigueresSpain
About
Surrealist artist known for such works as his painting The Persistence of Memory, which depicts a melting clock and other dreamlike images. His eccentric and flamboyant appearance included a mustache that was inspired by Diego Velázquez, the 17th century Spanish painter.
Family
He was told by his parents when he was five years old that he was the reincarnation of his deceased older brother, and he retained this belief throughout his life. He married the Russian-born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, also known as Gala, in 1934. She was the muse for, and subject of, his sculpture Gala in the Window, from 1933.

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