{"id":9391,"date":"2009-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/fundacio-dali\/noticia\/darreres-adquisicions-d-obra\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:20:17","slug":"last-acquisitions-of-works-by-dali","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/en\/dali-foundation\/news\/last-acquisitions-of-works-by-dali\/","title":{"rendered":"Last acquisitions of works by Dal\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed presented on July two oil paintings\u00a0by the artist it recently acquired,\u00a0which can be seen at the Dal\u00ed Theatre-Museum in Figueres. They add attraction to the Night visit that takes place in August.<\/p>\n

One is entitled\u00a0Bathers of Es Llaner<\/em><\/a> of 1923, which comes from a private collection and is exhibited in the Fishmongers Room.\u00a0The second one, Gala<\/a>,<\/em> from 1931, was bought in Sotheby’s New York and is now on show at the Drawings Room in an installation by the designer Pep Canaleta.<\/p>\n

Context of Bathers of Es Llaner<\/em><\/strong>
\nWhen Salvador Dal\u00ed was only five or six years old, his notary-public father rented a small house in Cadaqu\u00e9s, following in this respect in the path of his good friend Pepito Pichot Giron\u00e9s, whom he had got to know when studying law at the University of Barcelona. The house was very close to the Pichot\u2019s house, on Es Llaner beach, down by the sea. Behind it were gardens and olive groves bounded by dry-stone walls. This was the place that Dal\u00ed would dream about during the school year, the place where he imbued himself with the light and colour necessary to allow him to create.<\/p>\n

Salvador Dal\u00ed started out very early in painting. His initial works can be dated from 1910-1914, so that although by 1923 (the approximate date of the work we are now dealing with) he was still only 19 years old we cannot really describe him as a beginner. Influenced by his reading (the magazines Valori Plastici<\/em>, L\u2019Esprit Nouveau<\/em> and the Alt Empord\u00e0<\/em> weekly), he noted how Impressionism was giving way to new aesthetic forms, ones that he could identify with. Cubism, with its futurist air, was beginning to emerge in his works around that time and forms the context in which we may locate Bathers of Es Llaner<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\nIf we take a look at the overall corpus of his work dating from that period, we can see that Bathers of Es Llaner<\/em> stands out particularly, not so much for the physical setting of the scene on Es Llaner beach (in common with other works of the period) as for the festive atmosphere depicted in the work. The girls bathing in the sea, practically all of them naked and with their hair tied back, are clearly having fun: some at the water\u2019s edge, some in the water, others climbing into boats or already in them. The work conveys happiness. The light that is given off helps accentuate the imaginary nature of the scene. And we find these graceful figures \u2014 of symbolist and Mediterranean character, prototype of a female form reminiscent of his sister, who often served as his model \u2014 in similar situations in other works from that same year, such as The Jorneta Stream<\/a><\/em> or Landscape with Figures<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bathers of Es Llaner<\/em> is a large delicately executed work, with precise, almost pointilliste brushstrokes using bright colours, the range usual over those years.<\/p>\n

Speaking of this work much later, in the 1970s, the painter declared: \u201cThe paintings that filled me with admiration were the ones in which Impressionism had just openly adopted the pointillist formula. The systematic juxtaposition of orange and violet for me gave rise to a kind of hope and sentimental happiness similar to that provided by rainbow-coloured things seen through a prism\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed presented on July two oil paintings\u00a0by the artist it recently acquired,\u00a0which can be seen at the Dal\u00ed Theatre-Museum in Figueres. They add attraction to the Night visit that takes place in August. 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