# Salvador Dalí 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/ and BFI https://www.bfi.org.uk/). The Persistence of Memory (1931) is MoMA object 79018 (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79018) with Smarthistory teaching (https://smarthistory.org/salvador-dali-the-persistence-of-memory/). Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali) 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/) still sit inside Franco’s lifetime (d. 1975). That is cultural normalisation, not a ministry. Commercial licensing, late print-market opacity, and signature-forward workshop labour are rent and institutional-opacity paths. 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](/people/thierry-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/). 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) and Reina Sofía (https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en) 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](/people/walt-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. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: 1934-02-11 [The Surrealist group stages a 1934 ‘trial’ of Dalí and later expels him as a public schism](/facts/dal-expulsion-1934); 1948-01-01 [Dalí returns to Franco’s Spain in 1948 as a public resident artist of the dictatorship](/facts/dal-franco-return-1948); 1972-01-01 [Late-Franco honours and state proximity make Dalí a decorated public face of the regime’s culture](/facts/dal-franco-honours); 1968-01-01 [Dalí licenses a commercial name-brand on advertisements, multiples, and celebrity endorsements](/facts/dal-commercial-brand); 1980-01-01 [Late blank-paper signatures and a print-market fraud file attach to the Dalí name as public opacity](/facts/dal-fake-prints); 1929-06-06 [Un Chien Andalou premieres on 6 June 1929 with a razor-and-eye shock as public anti-empathy spectacle](/facts/dal-chien-violence); 1939-01-01 [The Enigma of Hitler and related 1930s images become a public fascination-file Breton already denounced](/facts/dal-enigma-hitler); 1934-01-30 [The 1934 civil marriage to Gala organises a public household-and-contract regime over access to the work](/facts/dal-gala-control); 1946-01-01 [The 1945–46 Destino collaboration is held unpublished for decades as a Disney commercial archive object](/facts/dal-destino-hold); 1942-01-01 [The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942) publishes a self-myth as if it were a civil register](/facts/dal-secret-life-myth); 1950-01-01 [Dalí-designed jewelry and gold objects circulate as luxury commodities under the artist-brand](/facts/dal-jewelry-rents); 1936-08-19 [The 1936 killing of Lorca and Dalí’s later public distance become a contested solidarity file](/facts/dal-lorca-break); 1960-01-01 [Late studio assistants and photographers execute images sold under the Dalí signature](/facts/dal-workshop-assistants); 1945-10-31 [Spellbound (1945) uses Dalí’s dream sequence as a Hollywood product inside a studio-censorship system](/facts/dal-spellbound-product); 1974-09-28 [The Figueres Theatre-Museum opening doubles as a Franco-era territorial culture brand](/facts/dal-catalan-state-brand); 1951-01-01 [The 1951 Mystical Manifesto publicises nuclear mysticism as a branded cosmology after Hiroshima](/facts/dal-nuclear-mysticism-cult); 1929-06-06 [Un Chien Andalou premieres as a public avant-garde film with Buñuel](/facts/dal-chien-1929-access); 1931-01-01 [Dalí paints The Persistence of Memory (1931), later a public Surrealist teaching canvas](/facts/dal-persistence-1931); 1934-01-01 [MoMA acquires The Persistence of Memory as a public New York collection object](/facts/dal-moma-1934); 1936-06-11 [The 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London makes Dalí a public lecture-and-object in Britain](/facts/dal-london-1936). Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. ## Dated facts - 1983: The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí is established as the public institutional successor. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-fundacio-1983. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. - 1980: Late blank-paper signatures and a print-market fraud file attach to the Dalí name as public opacity. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-fake-prints. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. - 1974: The Dalí Theatre-Museum opens in Figueres as a public house of works. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-figueres-access. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre-museum-in-figueres/. - 1974: The Figueres Theatre-Museum opening doubles as a Franco-era territorial culture brand. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-catalan-state-brand. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre-museum-in-figueres/. - 1972: Late-Franco honours and state proximity make Dalí a decorated public face of the regime’s culture. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-franco-honours. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre-museum-in-figueres/. - 1968: Dalí licenses a commercial name-brand on advertisements, multiples, and celebrity endorsements. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-commercial-brand. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. - 1960: Late studio assistants and photographers execute images sold under the Dalí signature. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-workshop-assistants. Sources: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/salvador-dali-971, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. - 1951: Nuclear-mysticism canvases enter public collections as dated postwar science-and-faith pictures. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-nuclear-paintings-public. Sources: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. - The 1951 Mystical Manifesto publicises nuclear mysticism as a branded cosmology after Hiroshima. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-nuclear-mysticism-cult. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. - 1950: Dalí-designed jewelry and gold objects circulate as luxury commodities under the artist-brand. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-jewelry-rents. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. - Dalí returns to Franco’s Spain in 1948 as a public resident artist of the dictatorship. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-franco-return-1948. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. - 1946: The 1945–46 Destino collaboration is held unpublished for decades as a Disney commercial archive object. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-destino-hold. Sources: https://d23.com/, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/salvador-dali