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Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain.
Figueres is located in the foothills of the Pyrenees, only sixteen miles from the French border in the principality
of Catalonia. The barren landscapes and fantastic rock formations of this region would appear time and again
in Dali's artwork. The son of a prosperous notary, Dalí split his boyhood between Figueres and the family's summer
home in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques where his parents built his first studio. As an adult, he made his
home with his wife Gala in nearby Port Lligat. His love of this area of Spain was also reflected in his paintings.¹
Recommended books on Salvador Dali: Salvador Dali 2v by Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret; Dali (Mallard Fine Art Series) by Paul Moorhouse; Dali: The Salvador Dali Museum Collection by Robert S. Lubar; The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali and Haakon M. Chevalier; The Persistence Of Memory: A Biography Of Dali by Meredith Etherington-smith; Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair by Ingrid Schaffner.