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...subterranean "Mole Hall." Every few seconds the caterpillar's double-hulled sides made of parachute silk heaved in simulation of caterpillar motion (achieved with the aid of a huge air-blowing system). The monster, which stole the show among 285 commercially sponsored exhibits, was Surrealist Salvador Dali's unrealistic idea of tranquillity executed for Wallace Laboratories to promote Miltown. Estimated total cost of the exhibit: $100,000, including a $35,000 fee for Artist Dali...
Untranquilizing as was the heaving exterior, the interior was still more disturbing. What most visitors saw first walking through the caterpillar's insides was the figure of a gaunt man with porthole-sized gaps in his anatomy, holding a staff topped with a mostly black butterfly. This, said Dali in an explanatory blurb, "portrays human anxiety." Next on the way "toward a harmonious tranquillity" came a diaphanous female figure with a winged-egg head, who carried a staff with a crepuscular moth. The third figure was what Dali called "the true butterfly of tranquillity"-a maiden in yellow, with...
...before she was 25, and invaded the U.S. in 1915, billing herself "The World's Greatest Beauty Culturist." She is now worth at least $100 million, collects paintings in her 26-room Park Avenue triplex, and has 14 portraits of herself by artists ranging from Dufy to Dali...
Fashioned after Dali's dream of Santiago rising from the sea, the 13½-ft.-high by 10-ft.-wide canvas shows the saint on a rearing horse. The domelike background represents both a scallop shell (one of the symbols of Santiago) and "a whole cathedral surging from the waters." It is strikingly different from the popular Spanish depiction of Santiago as a plumed knight. While the saint waves aloft a figure of Christ instead of a sword, he throws one enormous foot out to the viewer. "It is my foot," says Dali. "I have saintly feet...
...Artist Dali said that his new masterpiece has been bought for more than $60,000 by an American Hispanophile who intends to give it to the Spanish government. Last week the painting was packed up in Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries for shipment to the Brussels World's Fair. There it will hang alone in a special Spanish-pavilion annex. The Franco regime will celebrate the fair's inauguration by issuing a commemorative postage stamp bearing a reproduction of the Dali work. Later, said Catalan-born Artist Dali, the painting will go to Spain's "majestic temple...