White Space Gallery and Wadsworth Atheneum

Celebrate Dali, Picasso and the Surrealist Vision

New Haven , CT – White Space, a fine art gallery, located at 1020 Chapel Street celebrates Salvador Dali and the Surrealists from October thru December in conjunction with the Wadsworth A the neum’s Show “Dali, Picasso and the Surrealist Vision”. White Space Gallery presents an extensive collection of Dali hand-signed lithographs. In addition, the gallery also features hand-signed limited edition Picasso, Miro and Chagall. The gallery will highlight a unique collection of twelve magnificent Dali lithographs which were recently published. This unique collection is the Final Edition of hand-signed limited edition lithographs and has been au the nticated by Dali archivist Albert Field. These extraordinary renderings will be featured along with o the r rare Dali lithographs and Rare Clot Commissioned sculptures. In addition to the Final Edition Dali Collection, White Space will be featuring newly acquired rare Dali lithographs available for purchase. White Space Gallery joins with the Wadsworth A the neum to present the extraordinary works of Dali and the Surrealist masters.

After the Dali retrospective earlier this year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where more than 370,000 people visited, the popularity of this most prolific showman continues to grow. White Space’s collection represents various periods in Dali’s career and reflects a variety of styles from work he created in a state that he called “paranoiac-critical activity” as exemplified by “The Persistence of Memory,” his famous painting with its melting watches inspired by Camembert cheese, to o the r pieces in his more molecular style.

Dali was a 20 th century artist from Spain who emerged as a central figure of Surrealism in the late 1920’s. His paintings of desolate landscapes and melting watches such as “Tear of Time” changed the course of modern art. Dali, like o the r Surrealists was enormously influenced by Freud, whose the ories were incorporated into his method of viewing the world. Dali celebrated the irrational and painted in a style of hyper-realism that made the world hauntingly vivid. His paintings were full of hidden images as represented in “Surrealist Flower” and ambiguous dramas as in “The Don Quixote Trilogy,” all of which can be viewed at White Space Gallery.

Dali’s versatility and commercial instinct ignited his popularity in the United States where he worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney Studios; he also painted covers for Vogue and Town & Country magazines. His endeavors resulted in numerous artistic installations, a ballet, and even the design of haute couture and advertising images. In the late 1940’s, he displayed new interest in the disintegration of matter as seen in “Disintegrating Mo the r and Child” and “Spectral Horse”, and revisited his lifelong passion of religious the mes by creating images such as of “Wailing Wall” and “Christ of Gala” which are also on display in the gallery.