Salvador Dalí came to Tver

At the beginning of the 60 of last century, the great surrealist Salvador Dali illustrated the Divine Comedy by Dante. He made one hundred graphic works in xylography. It’s exactly the number of songs. A gang of cutters cut out the boards for 3500 impressions for three years. Because each color needs its own board.
“Tver is the second city in Russia, where we brought the exposure” - Alexander Schelyakov said, one of the organizers of the exhibition. Before this the exhibition was in Voronezh. Works from private German collections contains all 100 works of the series. The Russian museums do not have any works of this series, though it was published more than 1000 copies.

According to legend, Dali once admitted to journalists that he Dante did not read, and his wife and muse Gala told him the plot works. However, when you look at the work you understand that the great hoaxer was cunning. he is too deeply felt the poem. There are also traditional features Dali: stilts and ants. For the first time, the famous top view of figure of the crucified Christ appears in this series. Surrealistic interpretation of Dali's classic poem of Dante is one of the best of his works in book graphics and one of the most monumental of his works.

I’ll visit this exhibition this weekend indeed.