The secret life of Salvador Dali
By: by Salvador Dalí, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier.
Contributors: Chevalier, Haakon, 1902- tr.
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Description: This early autobiography, which takes Dalí through his late thirties, is as startling and unpredictable as his art. On its first publication, the reviewer of Books observed: "It is impossible not to admire this painter as writer ... (Dalí) succeeds in doing exactly what he sets out to do ... communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short the concept of life and the total picture of himself he sets out to portray." Superbly illustrated with over eighty photographs of Dalí and his works, and scores of Dalí drawings and sketches.