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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

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Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish Surrealist. Documented harms: 1934 Surrealist trial, 1948 return to Franco’s Spain, late honours, commercial brand, print-market opacity, 1929 shock, Hitler-image controversy. Offsets are Un Chien Andalou, Persistence/MoMA, Figueres 1974 as door, 1983 Fundació, Destino 2003.

Paranoiac-critical Surrealism later recast as nuclear mysticismcommercial self-branding of the signatureFranco-era Spanish residence and honours as public politics

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a moustache and not a unique Franco ministry. The heaviest documented costs in the public file are the 1934–39 Surrealist schism, 1948 residence and late honours under Franco, commercial licensing and print-market opacity, the 1929 shock, a 1939 Hitler-image controversy without a party card, and Destino held. The offsets are real and dated: the same 1929 film as archive, Persistence at MoMA, Figueres as a public museum, the 1983 Fundació, Tate/Reina Sofía hangings, and 2003 Destino. He did not file 1983 statutes or 2003 restoration. Foundation officers, museum registrars, Buñuel, and Disney artists did adjacent work. Confidence is high on those pages, medium on Lorca-gap and nuclear-manifesto polarisation.

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

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  • 7 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1922–1983).

Causal path

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  1. PersonSalvador Dalí
  2. FactThe Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí is established as the public institutional successor
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonSalvador Dalí
  2. FactLate blank-paper signatures and a print-market fraud file attach to the Dalí name as public opacity
  3. DriverInstitutional Corruption
  1. PersonSalvador Dalí
  2. FactThe Dalí Theatre-Museum opens in Figueres as a public house of works
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 23 December 1983 · Digital Learning Access

    The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí is established as the public institutional successor

  2. 1 January 1980 · Institutional Corruption

    Late blank-paper signatures and a print-market fraud file attach to the Dalí name as public opacity

  3. 28 September 1974 · Digital Learning Access

    The Dalí Theatre-Museum opens in Figueres as a public house of works

  4. 28 September 1974 · Political Polarization

    The Figueres Theatre-Museum opening doubles as a Franco-era territorial culture brand

  5. 1 January 1972 · Democratic Resilience

    Late-Franco honours and state proximity make Dalí a decorated public face of the regime’s culture

  6. 1 January 1968 · Income Inequality

    Dalí licenses a commercial name-brand on advertisements, multiples, and celebrity endorsements

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

30 of 30 linked facts verified, drawing on 10 distinct sources (1922–1983).

Sources include Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, The Walt Disney Company, British Film Institute, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Museum of Modern Art, Tate.

Sources (showing 8 of 10)

  1. 1.Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
  2. 2.Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí — Dalí Theatre-Museum, FigueresFundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
  3. 3.Britannica — Salvador DalíEncyclopaedia Britannica
  4. 4.British Film Institute — Cleopatra film heritage contextBritish Film Institute
  5. 5.Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí — timelineFundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
  6. 6.Tate — Salvador DalíTate
  7. 7.MoMA — Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of MemoryMuseum of Modern Art
  8. 8.D23 — The Official Disney Fan ClubThe Walt Disney Company

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 10

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Salvador Dalí in a public catalog is a dated film, a dated museum oil, and a dated political residence, not a moustache. Un Chien Andalou premiered 6 June 1929 (Fundació https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/ (opens in a new tab) and BFI https://www.bfi.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab)). The Persistence of Memory (1931) is MoMA object 79018 (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79018 (opens in a new tab)) with Smarthistory teaching (https://smarthistory.org/salvador-dali-the-persistence-of-memory/ (opens in a new tab)). Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali (opens in a new tab)) independently dates the 1948 return to Spain. The 1948 return, late honours, and 28 September 1974 Figueres opening (https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre-museum-in-figueres/ (opens in a new tab)) still sit inside Franco’s lifetime (d. 1975). That is cultural normalisation, not a ministry. The 1929 razor is a humanitarian-adjacent spectacle of medium confidence, split from archive access. The Enigma of Hitler (1939) is a public controversy Breton already named; this catalog does not invent an NSDAP card. Gala’s 30 January 1934 civil marriage is a managerial contract in the public file, not gossip. Destino’s 1945–46 labour was held until 2003 (D23 https://d23.com/ (opens in a new tab)). The 1942 Secret Life is a self-myth register. Lorca’s 19 August 1936 killing sits beside a prior friendship and a contested later language — medium confidence, no firing-squad claim. Offsets are URLs with later dates. MoMA 1934 made a teaching oil. Tate (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/salvador-dali-990 (opens in a new tab)) and Reina Sofía (https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en (opens in a new tab)) hang democratic-collection objects. Spellbound 1945 is both studio product and repertory lesson. Nuclear-mysticism canvases are museum science-culture objects and a 1951 manifesto brand — split. The 1983 Fundació is the successor office that also opened Portlligat and Púbol as house museums. 2003 Destino is delayed film education. What the score must not say: that a melting watch is physics; that 1948 is a cabinet post; that 1974 cancelled 1934; that Gala is only a rumour or only a saint; that Disney’s 2003 release unpaid 1946; that Figueres tickets rebate Franco honours. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on premieres, deeds, and museum dates; medium on Lorca solidarity and manifesto polarisation. 1929 is not 1931. 1934 trial is not 1934 MoMA. 1948 is not 1974. 1974 spectacle is not 1974 door. Hostile slogan and hagiography are both refused. Off-family padding — a health series nailed to a moustache without the 1938 Freud meeting as a bounded teaching object — is refused. Keep 1929, 1931, 1934 trial, 1934 MoMA, 1948, 1974, 1983, and 2003 on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts.

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