Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist artist born in Figueres, Catalonia in 1904, whose flamboyant personality and extraordinary technical mastery made him one of the most recognizable figures in 20th-century art. Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, Dalí developed a meticulous, almost photographic painting style that he used to render the impossible with startling precision — melting clocks, dreamscapes, and hallucinatory visions drawn from Freudian theory and his own restless imagination.

Dalí joined the Surrealist movement in the late 1920s and quickly became its most provocative voice, collaborating with Luis Buñuel on the landmark film Un Chien Andalou and producing iconic works such as The Persistence of Memory. Beyond painting, he worked prolifically in printmaking, sculpture, film, jewelry design, and theatre, leaving a body of work of extraordinary breadth. His lithographs and limited edition prints — many produced in collaboration with master printers in Paris and New York — are among the most sought-after works on paper in the modern art market. Dalí died in Figueres in 1989, leaving behind a legacy as bold and enduring as the art itself.