Word: daly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly 11 o'clock, and Vag had read one chapter. The time had finally come, he told himself, to get down to work. "But first, I'll look at my roommate's Dali print for inspiration." Each of his roommate's had wanted to write a poem to the picture, and now Vag tried to work...
...paintings by Europeans. Other Canadian tycoons supplemented the basic collection with gifts of their own. Toronto's Matthew James Boylen (asbestos, copper and lead mines) presented the new gallery with 22 Krieghoffs; the estate of the late Sir James Dunn (steel and iron ore) added three Sickerts and Dali's huge Santiago El Grande, whose rearing horse dominates the picture-window gallery. Beaverbrook's favorite ("because I like it") is Gainsborough's Peasant Girl Gathering Faggots, but he also cherishes his own portrait, painted by Great Britain's Graham Sutherland. "Many people...
...candle to the soaring prices now being fetched in Paris. An edition of 197 copies of Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyages Fantastiques, illustrated by Bernard Buffet, recently sold out within 48 hours at prices up to $15,500. More ambitious yet was Don Quichotte illustrated by Salvador Dali with "divine splashes" from an ink-filled snail shell. For the regular edition, Publisher Joseph Foret set the price at a mere $300 a copy. But one copy, billed as "the most expensive book in the world," was tagged at $25,000. The Frenchman who succumbed (he insisted on anonymity...
Although his genius as an exhibitionist has often obscured his real importance as a painter, Dali clearly aims to exhibit many things besides himself. First on his list at present is the problem of finding visual equivalents for new-found scientific truths. To understand both painting and physics is not the same thing as to merge them, but Dali tries, and he is the only major painter making the attempt...
...solemn in his studio as any physicist, and equally bent on the barely possible, Dali pursues his difficult new way. "I have reached a turning point in my art," he says, staring over the waxed candelabra...