# Late studio assistants and photographers execute images sold under the Dalí signature Date: 1960 ## The fact By 1960 late studio assistants executed photographs, prints, and objects sold under the [Dalí](/people/salvador-dali) signature. It is one event. ## Context 1929 film credits Buñuel. Late multiples often do not credit the hand. Split signs. Salvador Dalí’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. By 1960 a late studio of assistants, printers, and photographers produced objects labelled Dalí. He directed and signed. Names on labels often recede. Workshop erasure is the labour path. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row. ## Evidence and sources Fundació workshop/collection practice and Tate artist pages independently describe a late studio of multiples and assistants. Official or archival record: Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí (https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/; Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí). ## Significance Signature-forward workshop labour is a tightness-and-erasure path. A 1960 assistant is not Gala’s 1934 contract alone. Signature-forward workshop labour is a tightness-and-erasure path. ## What is established and what is not Established: late studio execution under the signature. Not established: that assistants painted the 1931 oil. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Salvador Dalí. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes. They are not a public rating. ## People - Salvador Dalí: https://factrail.ai/people/salvador-dali ## Drivers - Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness ## Sources - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/salvador-dali-971 - https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-workshop-assistants