Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Spain, Surrealist Etching Print "Exploding Madonna". Signed lower right. Numbered 302/450 lower left. Framed.

Overall Size: 25 1/2 x 33 1/4 in.
Sight Size: 19 1/4 x 26 3/4 in.

Salvador Dalí (born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, 1904-1989) was a Spanish painter and polymath whose wildly imaginative works made him the most famous figure of Surrealism. Raised in Figueres, Catalonia, he trained at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and developed a prodigious technical skill. Inspired partly by his readings of psychoanalytic ideas and by his embrace of the subconscious, Dalí pioneered the “paranoiac‑critical method,” producing dreamlike, often bizarre images — perhaps none more iconic than The Persistence of Memory (1931), with its melting clocks. Beyond painting, Dalí worked across media — film, sculpture, photography, design, writing — and explored themes from dreams and sexuality to science, religion, and memory. In 1974, he opened the Dalí Theatre‑Museum in his hometown of Figueres, a lasting monument to his life and oeuvre.

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