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  Timeline

  1904 -Salvador Dali is born in Figueres, Spain on May 11.

  1918 -Dali has his first exhibition at age 14

  1922 -Dali attends the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.

  1925 -Dali has his first major exhibition in Barcelona.

  1927 -Dali is called up for 9 months of military service

  1929 -Dali meets Gala Eluard, and joins the surrealist movement.

  1931 -The Persistence of Memory

  1934 -Dali marries Gala in a civil ceremony on January 30.

  1936 -Soft Construction With Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War

  1940 -Dali and Gala flee Paris and settle in America for the next eight years, dividing their time between New York and California. Dali not only paints, but works with Alfred Hitchcock on Spellbound and with Walt Disney on a cartoon project.

  1942 -Dali's autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, is published.

  1944 -Dali, who is painting less and expanding into other fields, publishes his first novel, Rostras Oscuras

  1948 -Dali and Gala return to Spain, though Dali continues to spend each winter in New York 1952-1954 -The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

  1958 -Dali and Gala marry in a religious ceremony in Girona, Spain

  1974 -The Teatre-Museu Dali, a museum devoted to Dali's work, opens in Figueres, Spain 1982 -The Dali Museum opens in St. Petersburg, Florida. Gala dies on June 10. King Juan Carlos of Spain makes Dali the Marquis of Pubol.

  1989 -Dali dies of heart failure on January 23 in Figueres, and is buried at the Teatre-Museu Dali.

  For More Information

  Biography: THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY: A BIOGRAPHY OF SALVADOR DALI, by Meredith Etherington-Smith Da Capo Press, 1995

  Autobiography: THE SECRET LIFE OF SALVADOR DALI, by Salvador Dali, Dover, 1993

  Criticism: DALI AND POSTMODERNISM, by Mark J. Lafountain State University of New York, 1997

  Art Books: DALI: THE PAINTINGS, by Gilles Neret & Robert Descharnes, Taschen, 2001 DALI, by Dawn Ades, Rizzoli, 2004

  DALI: THE SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM COLLECTION, By Robert S. Lubar Bullfinch, 2000

  Original art on display: The Teatre-Museu Dali, Figueres, Spain 1982 -The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.

  Web sites:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_dali

  http://www.virtualdali.com/

  http://www.daliweb.tampa.fl.us/

  http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/dali_salvador.html

  http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/dali.html