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A flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory.
Dali often clashed with André Breton and other members of the "official" Surrealist circle over the content of his paintings and the right-wing views he sometimes espoused, and was kicked out of the group in 1934. Breton coined a brilliant anagram for Dali's name: Avida Dollars (which more or less translates to "Eager for Dollars"); Dali shot back, The only difference between me and the Surrealists is that I am a Surrealist.
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into the following different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Salvador Dali
Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation
This foundation manages three Dalí museums in Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Skull of Zurbaran (Crâne de Zurbaran), 1956
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
9 works by Salvador Dalí online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Lobster telephone
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Birth of Liquid Desires, 1931-32
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Birth of Liquid Desires, 1931-32
Salvador Dali Museum, Florida
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
12 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain (in Spanish) 
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Scroll down the alphabetical list for 11 works by Dali
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
Cabinet Anthropomorphoque
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Liberation: The Prisoners are Free!
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
The Madonna of Port Lligat, 1950
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona NEW!
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
Christ of St John of the Cross
Glasgow Museums Image Library
Christ of St. John of the Cross
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Madonna of Port Lligat, 1948
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
A lithograpoh that appears to be Gemini, from Dali's Zodiac series
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Illustrated .PDF document with info about the 2000 exhibition, Dali and the Ballet
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana State University Art Collection NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Le cannibalisme des objects, pen and ink drawing, 1933
Kunsthaus Zurich
Salvador Dali in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Madison Museum of Fine Art, Inc., Georgia
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Juan de Pareja, the Assistant to Valezquez, 1960
Aphrodisiac Telephone
Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula
Illustrations for The Divine Comedy
Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy (in Italian)
2 drawings online
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)
Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid, Spain (in Spanish)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Portrait of the Artist's Father and Sister
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Portrait of Salvador Dalí i Cusí, the Artist's Father
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Vénus de Milo with Drawers
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Online exhibition: Salvador Dali and the enigmatic Isodore Ducasse
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
La gare de Perpignan
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
8 works by Dali
Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
La Venus aux Fourrures, 1969
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Cheval Rouge
Don Quichotte A La Gidoulle: Etude
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Salvador Dalí online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Mini-site for a 2005 exhibition: Dali
Queens Museum of Art, New York
Info about the 2003 exhibition: Salvador Dalí: Dream of Venus
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid NEW! (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Honey is Sweeter than Blood, 1941
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands NEW!
(Click on the artwork titles, not the thumbnails)
Adolescence, 1941
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
The Sublime Moment
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Waking up, 1944
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Salvador Dali 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
Un chien andalou, 1929
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Dalí: Mass Culture
Artcyclopedia
"The Salvador Dali Show"
ARTnews
"The Great Late Salvador Dalí"
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Frieze Magazine
"Picture: Walt Disney and Salvador Dali"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Portrait of Mrs Isabel Styler-Tas, 1945
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
"Salvador's Siren", article about Dalí's muse, Gala Diakonova
Time Magazine
"The Soft Watch and the Beady Eye", 1980 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Embarrassing Genius Behind the Kitsch", 1989 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Baby Dali", 1994 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Two Faces of Dalí", 2000 article by Robert Hughes
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