Salvador Dalí
- Painter
- Filmmaker
- Sculptor
Met · 1929
In Paris in 1929, and again that summer at Cadaqués, where Éluard sat for a portrait and his wife Gala left with the painter. Dalí finished the portrait after she had gone.
- Poet
Paul Éluard
Surrealist poet, and Gala's husband when she and Dalí met at Cadaqués in the summer of 1929. He had been sitting for Dalí that summer; the portrait was finished after Gala left with the painter.
In images
Details
- 1895–1952
- 1895
- 1952
- French
- Poet
- Eugène Émile Paul Grindel
About Paul Éluard
Éluard was one of the four writers at the founding core of Surrealism, with Breton, Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault. He had come to poetry through a tuberculosis sanatorium in Switzerland, where at seventeen he met a Russian patient named Elena Diakonova and renamed her Gala. They married in 1917.
In the summer of 1929 the Éluards went to Cadaqués at Dalí's invitation. Éluard sat for a portrait; Gala stayed with the painter, and the portrait was finished after she had gone. Éluard kept writing, kept his friendship with Dalí for some years, broke with Breton's group in 1938 over politics, and spent the occupation publishing clandestinely for the Resistance — the work most French readers know him for now.
People they knew
Gala Dalí
- Artists' model
- Muse
- Agent
Married to · 1917
They met as patients at the Clavadel sanatorium above Davos in 1912, were discharged in February 1914, and married in Paris in February 1917. She left him at Cadaqués in 1929; he went on writing about her for years afterwards.
Movements
Art & literary movement · 1924–1966
Surrealism
One of the movement's founding literary core with Breton, Aragon and Soupault. He broke with the group in 1938 over its politics and spent the war writing for the Resistance.
Paul Éluard’s Places
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Associated with · 1924
Surrealism
One of the movement's founding literary core with Breton, Aragon and Soupault. He broke with the group in 1938 over its politics and spent the war writing for the Resistance.
Visited · 1929
Cadaqués
Paul Éluard joined the Surrealist group visit to Cadaqués in August 1929; his wife Gala remained there with Salvador Dalí after he returned to Paris.
Met · 1929
Salvador Dalí
In Paris in 1929, and again that summer at Cadaqués, where Éluard sat for a portrait and his wife Gala left with the painter. Dalí finished the portrait after she had gone.
Married to · 1917
Gala Dalí
They met as patients at the Clavadel sanatorium above Davos in 1912, were discharged in February 1914, and married in Paris in February 1917. She left him at Cadaqués in 1929; he went on writing about her for years afterwards.