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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.
Salvador Dalí Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation
This foundation manages three Dalí museums in Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Birth of Liquid Desires, 1931-32
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Lobster telephone
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Salvador Dali Museum, Florida
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
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) 
(Works are shown at the right, under "Obras")
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
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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
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
The Madonna of Port Lligat
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Le cannibalisme des objects, pen and ink drawing, 1933
Kunsthaus Zurich
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Madison Museum of Fine Art, Inc., Georgia
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Juan de Pareja, the Assistant to Valezquez, 1960
Aphrodisiac Telephone
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 Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
La gare de Perpignan
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
8 works by Dali
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Image from a 2008 exhibition
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Portrait of Isabelle Baker Woolley
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Cheval Rouge
Don Quichotte A La Gidoulle: Etude
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mini-site for a 2005 exhibition: Dali
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Honey is Sweeter than Blood, 1941
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands
(Click on the artwork titles, not the thumbnails)
Adolescence, 1941
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
The Sublime Moment
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Waking up, 1944
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
ARTnews
"The Great Late Salvador Dalí"
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Frieze Magazine
"Picture: Walt Disney and Salvador Dali"
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Portrait of Mrs Isabel Styler-Tas, 1945
The London Evening Standard
"The Dali I knew", 2007 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"Salute the last old master", 2004 article by Brian Sewell
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
"Salvador's Siren", article about Dalí's muse, Gala Diakonova
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