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Fine Art Print

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Fine Art Print
by noted Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali, entitled the Grandest Beauty of Beatrice, measures 11"x14", shows water mark lower right hand side, in gold frame. The Divine Comedy: Italy vs. Dali. In 1950, to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante, the Italian government commissioned Salvador Dalí to illustrate one of the most important works of Italian literature, Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” In November 1949, Pope Pius XII had granted Dalí a private audience and lo and behold! His Holiness had consented and, to everyone’s surprise, agreed to Dalí’s request to paint the Immaculate Conception. The painting Dalí finally created was to become one of his masterpieces, “The Madonna of Port Lligat.” To many, this was considered not only an amazing gesture by a Pope, but also an audacious act considering that Dalí outrageously proclaimed himself “a Surrealist void of all moral values” during what many regarded as his “blasphemous” stay in Paris in 1929 with the Surrealist group presided over by André Breton. Salvador Dali was born May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. From an early age Dali was encouraged to practice his art and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920's Dali went to Paris and began interacting with Picasso, Magritte, and Miro leading to his first Surrealist phase. The rise of the fascist leader Franco in Spain led to Dali's expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that did not prevent him from painting.