The Foundation’s own English-language portal, and the starting point for its museums, cataloguing work, news and public services. Use it whenever you need the primary institutional position on a question.
www.salvador-dali.org
A year-by-year chronology that runs Dalí’s life alongside Gala’s, so the two biographies can be read against each other. Handy for dating works, moves and exhibitions.
www.salvador-dali.org
The single doorway to the Foundation’s scholarly cataloguing projects, currently paintings and sculpture. Each catalogue has its own search interface and editorial notes.
catalogues.salvador-dali.org
A searchable record of paintings catalogued by the Foundation across the years 1910 to 1983. Entries carry measurements, dating, collection history and bibliography where these are established.
catalogues.salvador-dali.org
The introductory text behind the paintings catalogue: how the research team works through visual analysis, documents, archives and technical study, plus a user manual for reading an entry.
catalogues.salvador-dali.org
The Foundation’s cataloguing project for sculpture and three-dimensional work, an area where later editions and posthumous casts make documentation especially important.
catalogues.salvador-dali.org
The Foundation’s published criteria for classifying Dalí graphic works, setting out how it separates original prints and authorized editions from reproductions. Essential background before reading any print description.
www.salvador-dali.org
The Foundation’s own explanation of which unique works it will examine, chiefly oils, watercolours and drawings, and what a submission involves. DALI ROOM is independent and does not authenticate anything.
www.salvador-dali.org
The Foundation’s research centre, holding the documentary and photographic collections, letters, manuscripts and press archive that underpin its cataloguing and authentication work.
www.salvador-dali.org
Where to go before reproducing a Dalí work or using his name and likeness, with the relevant contacts and permission routes. Read this first if you are publishing images.
www.salvador-dali.org
The Foundation’s overview of the three Dalí sites in Empordà: Figueres, Portlligat and Púbol. A sensible place to start planning the order of a visit.
www.salvador-dali.org
Visitor information for the Figueres museum that Dalí conceived as a single work in itself, including opening hours and ticketing. Also links to the virtual tour.
www.salvador-dali.org
Practical information for the house and studio at Portlligat, where entry is by timed slot and advance booking is required because groups are small.
www.salvador-dali.org
Answers to the recurring practical questions across the three museums: tickets, getting there, luggage, photography and site rules. Worth reading before you travel.
www.salvador-dali.org
Accessibility conditions site by site, covering step-free routes, lifts and assistance at Figueres, Portlligat and Púbol. The buildings differ considerably, so check each one.
www.salvador-dali.org
The Florida museum that holds one of the largest Dalí collections outside Europe, with exhibitions, learning programmes and visitor details on its own site.
thedali.org
The museum’s public collection database, where works can be browsed or searched by title, medium and date. Useful for checking how a specific work is catalogued.
collection.thedali.org
A guide to the museum’s library and archives, with catalogue access, exhibition history and downloadable research material for scholars and serious readers.
thedali.org
The museum’s scholarly arm, gathering archives, its Avant-garde Studies journal, research services and fellowship information in one place.
thedali.org
A compiled reading list of freely available image, audiovisual, museum, library and archive resources, published by the museum’s library as an accessible PDF.
thedali.org
MoMA’s artist page, which is the entry point to the Dalí paintings, drawings, prints and objects the museum records in its online collection.
www.moma.org
The museum record for the 1931 painting, with medium, dimensions, credit line and collection history. A useful model of how a museum states what it knows about an object.
www.moma.org
MoMA’s page for its 2008 exhibition on Dalí and cinema, covering his own film projects and his work with collaborators including Hitchcock and Disney.
www.moma.org
A short filmography produced for the same exhibition, listing finished films, collaborations and projects that were never completed. Convenient for checking a title and date quickly.
www.moma.org
The artist page at Spain’s national museum of modern art, listing the Dalí works it holds with links to individual collection records.
www.museoreinasofia.es
The museum’s presentation of its large Dalí retrospective, which works through his periods with particular weight on the Surrealist years and the paranoiac-critical method.
www.museoreinasofia.es
A research entry from the Met’s Modern Art Index Project on the couturier whose Surrealist collaborations with Dalí produced the lobster dress and shoe hat. Includes further reading.
www.metmuseum.org
A critical essay from Tate’s magazine on how Dalí built and sold a public persona, and what his commercial reach did to his standing. Good context for the later editions debate.
www.tate.org.uk
A privately run museum-gallery in Montmartre showing Dalí sculpture and graphic work. Programmes and opening arrangements change, so confirm details on the site before travelling.
www.daliparis.com
A plain-language report on the Foundation’s decision to publish its painting catalogue online, useful if you want the scale of the project before reading the catalogue itself.
www.smithsonianmag.com