In 1954, he arranged for a private session with the painting at the Louvre, where he would attempt to copy it in one hour. As the story goes, after the hour was over Dalí had not painted a woman ...

In Surreal, Michèle Gerber Klein asks us to confront the unjust eclipse of Gala’s legacy by that of her husband, Salvador, whose career she brought to fruition. Gala Dalí wearing the "Shoe Hat ...

Surrealist female artistsremained obscure because they were believed to be only muses to their male counterparts.

“Beyond the legacy of the great art and impactful literature that she ... talent was Gala’s gift to cultural history.” Gala Dali wearing Shoe Hat and Lips Jacket, which she inspired ...

Thanks to Gala, Salvador’s hallucinatory paintings and his pop-eyed ... wary and practical to her marrow. The woman who had crossed paths with Coco Chanel, Harpo Marx, Alice Cooper and Spain ...