Dalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household
The 1940 Atlantic crossing is the dated exile instrument. Salvador Dalí’s documented role is: He fled occupied Europe. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.
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The 1940 Atlantic crossing is the dated exile instrument. Salvador Dalí’s documented role is: He fled occupied Europe. He did not command the German army. The dated crossing is the displacement instrument. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. He did not command the German army.
Context
Fall of France. Lisbon or equivalent exit as later dated. New York becomes the working city. Named others on the file: Gala as travelling household; unnamed steamship labour. The public setting is the file around 1940-08-01. The instrument stays Dalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household. The setting of Dalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household is the public file around 1940-08-01. Driver forced-displacement-scale is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Why it matters
Wartime displacement. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A wartime artist-exile is a displacement path of high confidence on the dated move. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Salvador Dalí
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
He fled occupied Europe. He did not command the German army. The dated crossing is the displacement instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactDalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household
- strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
- strengthensIndicators (2)People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 August 1940 · verified
A wartime artist-exile is a displacement path of high confidence on the dated move.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.24 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.8)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
- Worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.46)
Observed
10.4% · 10.2 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 11.1% to 10.4%.
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Tate — Salvador DalíTate · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Salvador DalíEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Two dates.
Britannica and Tate independently date the 1940 move to the United States. Official: Britannica — Salvador Dalí (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Tate — Salvador Dalí (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/salvador-dali-971 (opens in a new tab); Tate). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Salvador Dalí (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Tate — Salvador Dalí (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/salvador-dali-971 (opens in a new tab); Tate).
Exile, not a refugee census. Established: a sourced public record of Dalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household under 1940-08-01.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Two dates. Mixed effects of Dalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household are separate paths.
Shared responsibility is part of Dalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household. Naming Salvador Dalí does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1940-08-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorSalvador Dalí
- contributed toFactDalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household
- strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). Dalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-usa-exile-1940
https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-usa-exile-1940
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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