Dali Museum to Get More Dali Works

On Monday, Oct. 1 the Dalí Museum will welcome 12  Dalí works on loan from the National Collection of Modern Art in Spain. 

Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía will loan the selection of paintings to help expand our knowledge of Dalí’s diverse production of art. 

The Royal Inheritance, paintings which came to the Kingdom of Spain as heir to Dalí’s estate, will present works that have never been on view in America before, including still lifes, the stunning stereoscopic work Las Meninas, portraits of his wife, Gala and later works with a mathematical theme.

The exhibition is co-curated by the Dalí Museum’s senior curators Joan Kropf and William Jeffett.

Superseding a series of previous wills, Dalí's final will, written in 1982 following the death of Gala, named the SpanishKingdom as his sole heir. After Dalí died in 1989, works from the former Museo Español de Arte were transferred to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, now one of the world's largest contemporary art museums.

The exhibition begins with examples of Dalí’s precise technical skill in four paintings from 1918 to 1924 of pristine still lifes and nude studies demonstrating Dalí’s varied techniques and keen eye for realism in the face of the period’s predominant interest in abstraction.