Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, c.1976
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Description:
It's part of the permanent collection at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg and is one of the last large-scale paintings Dali completed before his physical decline in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the time he worked in a studio, but this was painted, in part at least, in the St. Regis Hotel in New York in 1976. It was first exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York that same year and was owned by private collectors for years. It was borrowed for an exhibition here in 1985 but the museum didn't acquire it until 2004. Many people believe Dali's famous "melting clocks" is his most reproduced painting. But, no, it's this one. Dali loved complex titles and "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Meters becomes a Portrait of Abraham Lincoln" is one of the longer ones, including its subtitle, Homage to Rothko. But it sums up the major feature for viewers, which is the spectacular double image Dali created. Though he took the work seriously, he was having some fun, making us work for that optical illusion. The best way to see it is from 20 meters (almost 66 feet). At the Dali Museum, it hangs at the end of the large back gallery so you can take a close look at it, then back up until you see Lincoln's image emerge. The woman is Gala, whom Dali painted many times. Her pose here is also one Dali favored, facing away from us so we can't see her expression, looking at a harbor from a window. Like Lincoln, Gala represented an ideal to Dali. In truth, she was often greedy, vain and overbearing. But to him, she was the perfect muse, providing strength and inspiration, always in the end mysterious and unknowable. She appears again at the lower left as a shadowy, dreamlike figure. When he painted her here, she was well into her 70s, but she remains in his eyes a young, lissome woman. **NOTE** This is the SECOND version of two VERY similar paintings; the first being completed in 1974.
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Alternate Titles:
- Lincoln in Dalivision (second version)
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