„Dali. The Paintings“ – the most complete study of Salvador Dali’s painted works yet. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret located previously inaccessible works that epitomize Dali’s depictions of the subconscious and its strange workings. Complete with updated captions, this opulent edition contextualizes Dali’s paintings with his own writings, drawings, and archival material. The study is divided into two parts: the first examines Dali’s beginnings as an unknown artist. We witness how the young Dal? deployed all the isms—Impressionism, Pointillism, Cubism, Fauvism, Purism and Futurism—with playful mastery, and how he would borrow from prevailing trends before ridiculing and abandoning them. The second part unveils the conclusions of Dali’s lifelong inquiries, as well as the great legacy he left in works such as Tuna Fishing (1966/67) or Hallucinogenic Toreador (1970). It includes previously unpublished homages to Velazquez or Michelangelo, painted to the same end as the variations on past masters done by his contemporary, Picasso.