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January 12, 2011, Wednesday
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SOME of Salvador Dali's most famous paintings have a new home in Florida with the opening of a US$36 million museum designed to reflect the Spanish painter's surreal style.
The Dali museum was officially opened yesterday in St. Petersburg with Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca and the daughter of Spain's King and Queen, cutting the ribbon.
"It's a great day for the world of art," Jorge Dezcallar, Spain's ambassador to the United States, said at the ceremony.
The new building houses the largest collection of Dali's work outside of Spain with 96 oil paintings and over 2,000 other pieces of his art. It is twice the size of the old museum, a converted warehouse, which opened in 1982.
Among the prominent paintings in the collection are "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory," "The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus," "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea ... Portrait of Abraham Lincoln," "Daddy Long Legs of the Evening -- Hope," "Eggs on the Plate Without the Plate" and "Portrait of My Dead Brother."
"Works from every period of Dali's career are represented, from his paintings to his works on paper, objects and films. It's a collection that can never be reassembled," Director Hank Hine said in the museum guide.
The paintings and other pieces of art were collected by A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse of Cleveland, Ohio beginning in 1942. In 1980, the couple were looking for a location for a museum to house all their collection in one place and the city of St. Petersburg agreed to provide one on its waterfront. The museum opened two years later. Reynolds Morse died in 2000 and his wife died last July.
Architect Yann Weymouth of the HOK firm said the building had to be made strong enough with 18-inch-thick concrete walls to withstand hurricanes winds and still be welcoming to visitors.
"I think Dali would like this," Weymouth said in an interview. "There's a certain amount of playfulness. There's nothing like this anywhere in the world."
The Dali museum's website is www.thedali.org.
The Dali museum was officially opened yesterday in St. Petersburg with Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca and the daughter of Spain's King and Queen, cutting the ribbon.
"It's a great day for the world of art," Jorge Dezcallar, Spain's ambassador to the United States, said at the ceremony.
The new building houses the largest collection of Dali's work outside of Spain with 96 oil paintings and over 2,000 other pieces of his art. It is twice the size of the old museum, a converted warehouse, which opened in 1982.
Among the prominent paintings in the collection are "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory," "The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus," "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea ... Portrait of Abraham Lincoln," "Daddy Long Legs of the Evening -- Hope," "Eggs on the Plate Without the Plate" and "Portrait of My Dead Brother."
"Works from every period of Dali's career are represented, from his paintings to his works on paper, objects and films. It's a collection that can never be reassembled," Director Hank Hine said in the museum guide.
The paintings and other pieces of art were collected by A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse of Cleveland, Ohio beginning in 1942. In 1980, the couple were looking for a location for a museum to house all their collection in one place and the city of St. Petersburg agreed to provide one on its waterfront. The museum opened two years later. Reynolds Morse died in 2000 and his wife died last July.
Architect Yann Weymouth of the HOK firm said the building had to be made strong enough with 18-inch-thick concrete walls to withstand hurricanes winds and still be welcoming to visitors.
"I think Dali would like this," Weymouth said in an interview. "There's a certain amount of playfulness. There's nothing like this anywhere in the world."
The Dali museum's website is www.thedali.org.
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