Dali & I - A Story About Style

The newspaper ABC dedicated a page to thewas Dali the one who merely accepted to sign
book that has been published recently: Dali & I - Ablank canvasses offered by his guardians
surreal story (more on this work is to be found(accepted version of the "allegations" about false
at this (1) site).paintings) or was it Dali who initiated this process
The article started about the famous moustacheby signing a blank canvass and to tell his guardians
of Dali followed about his care for personal- like Lauryssens - to sell them. According to this
hygiene and about his work. The headline says itbook Dali initiated it all.
all: "Salvador Dali, falser than Judas."Another curious passage is when Kirk Douglas is
Stan Lauryssens is a Belgian author who wasinvited to stay at their (Dali's and Gala's) House
Dali's ex collaborator. Why this work is publishedand that Gala is going over his pockets while Kirk
now, nearly twenty years after the death of Daliis outside ... The story doesn't end with the
isn't mentioned in the article. But rather than "ademystification of Dali but also of his wife Gala.
surreal story" I would say it is a story aboutWhether this book will damage Dali's imagine is
fraud, if the article has summarized the book well.uncertain. Perhaps it is all part of his character and
The there are many false paintings of Dali inthe transient property of surrealism. Perhaps it
circulation is commonly known. This book explainsmatches perfectly with his style as we know it.
more about the "truth" of these false paintings: