Dali was born in Figueres in 1904 and, although his career obviously took him all around the world, he lived most of his life in this region of Spain. Formerly the city´s Municipal Theater, which had been gutted by fire in 1939 towards the end of Spain´s civil war, Dali converted the building into a combination art gallery and fun house between 1961 and 1974. Containing a significant portion of his life´s work, including the famous Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon and Portrait of Picasso, as well as numerous large scale works or installations created specifically for the space.
The main entrance of Teatre-Museu Dali, complete with classical sculptures with loaves of bread on their heads or the square´s centerpiece sculpture built from various objects, including a large fake egg, Greek friezes, and driftwood.
Side view of the Teatre-Museu, painted pink and with large eggs and stylized Oscar statues atop. The yellow dots covering the walls are small golden loaves of bread.
Individual sculptures and paintings in a large room become...
a sculpture of Mae West when viewed through a special lense.
GGala Looking At the Mediterranean Sea which becomes a painting of Abraham Lincoln when viewed through special coin-operated viewers (or when one just squints).
Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon
From here we drove north over the boarder into France and stopped for the night in Perpignan, and cute town near the sea. From here, we visited a Cathar fortress and drove through the micro-state of Andorra, but more on that later.
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