Eye Opener

alvador Dalí was the darling of Paris and New York’s high society. Among the artist’s many friends in high For his wife, Patricia, he bought a 1952 study by Dali, a Virgin based on the likeness of the master’s muse, Gala. The painter, at the height of his fame, relished the persona he had created for himself. “Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.”