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Dalí·Jewels

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made the designs for the pieces on paper, with all kinds of details and great precision of shapes, materials and colours, while they were made up in New York by the team of the Argentinean-born silversmith Carlos Alemany under the close supervision of the artist himself. In 1958 they were acquired by
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With the consultancy and supervision of the Spanish Gemmology Association, the collection was acquired by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation from a Japanese organisation in 1999. Since that time, the association's experts, in collaboration with technicians from the foundation's Conservation Department
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As well as designing the forms of the jewels, Salvador Dalí personally selected each of the materials used, not only for their colours or value but also for their meaning and the symbolic connotations of each and every one of the previous stones and noble metals. Some of the jewels that form part of
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during the months of August and September 1973, a year before the museum was inaugurated and while the Master was still alive. In 1981 the collection was acquired by a Saudi multimillionaire, and later by three Japanese entities, the last of which agreed to sell it to the
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All the pieces in the collection are unique items, and the combination of materials, dimensions and shapes used by Salvador Dalí make this a one-off set in which the artist managed to express in a unique way the wealth of his singular iconography. Gold,
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has completely refurbished a building annexed to the museum. The two floors that house the collection of jewels have an entrance independent from that of the museum, and can therefore be visited separately. The exhibition, includes the thirty-seven
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and Alemany, created special settings and illuminated frames for a traveling exhibition of the jewels sponsored by the Cheatham Foundation. The collection of jewels had already been exhibited temporarily at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in
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made in designing the jewels. The whole forms an extensive collection of works carried out by the artist between 1941 and 1970, providing a perfect illustration of the various phases of his artistic development.
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this collection, such as The Eye of Time (1949), Royal Heart (1953), or The Space Elephant (1961), have become key works and are considered to be as exceptional as some of his paintings.
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Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors
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and other noble materials combine to form hearts, lips, eyes, plant and animal forms, religious and mythological symbols and
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from the old Owen Cheatham collection, two jewels made later, and the twenty-seven drawings and paintings on paper that
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and the Dalí Study Centre, have been cataloguing each of the pieces and designing a permanent exhibition for them.
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The history of these jewels started in 1911. The first 22 were acquired by the US millionaire
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
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Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time
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in Richmond. Dalí, in collaboration with the Dutch American framemaker
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A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
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Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity
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The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table
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Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
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Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire
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Index

Dalí-Jewels
Catalan
Dalí Theatre and Museum
Figueres
Catalonia
Spain
Òscar Tusquets
jewels
gold
precious stones
Salvador Dalí
Cummins Catherwood
Salvador Dalí
Owen Cheatham Foundation
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Henry Heydenryk, Jr.
Figueres
Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation
platinum
diamonds
rubies
emeralds
sapphires
aquamarines
topazes
pearls
corals
anthropomorphic
Dalí·Jewels official website
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