# Dalí and Gala leave Europe in 1940 for the United States, a wartime displacement of the working household

Date: 1940

## The fact

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. Do not store 1948 Franco return as this 1940 crossing. Two dates. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Salvador Dalí's documented role is: He fled occupied Europe. He did not command the German army. The dated crossing is the displacement instrument.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/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.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Tate independently date the 1940 move to the United States. Official: Britannica — Salvador Dalí (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Tate — Salvador Dalí (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/salvador-dali-971; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Tate — Salvador Dalí (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/salvador-dali-971; Tate).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Salvador Dalí (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

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.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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.

The attached driver is forced-displacement-scale. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Do not store 1948 Franco return as this 1940 crossing. 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.

## People

- Salvador Dalí: https://factrail.ai/people/salvador-dali

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/salvador-dali-971
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-usa-exile-1940