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Private collector of Salvador Dali related magazines, newspapers, books and catalogs. Occasional seller on eBay as Kermit18.
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07/25/2024

Dali in a Tub

Between 1970 and 1980 Dali would create a front page seasonal greeting to his fellow Catalonians in Los Sitios newspaper. Their December 20, 1972 front page (pictured here) has Dali sitting in a swan bath tub busily working on this year’s greeting.

The second photo is the greeting that Dali was working on. Instead saying “Merry Christmas” or a “Happy New Year”, Dali got a bit political with this one. Roughly translated it reads “Make Europe more like Spain. Make Spain more like Girona”. The message highlights the Catalan desire of independence.

07/24/2024

Crazy Like a Fox
Yesterday’s post had several pictures of Dali in some of his most peculiar poses. My old friend Luca dropped me a note saying that he recalled a story by that name in a magazine. He was right, a story with that title ran in the June 10, 1947 issue of Look magazine. I thought it might be of interest to him and my readers so I’m posting it here. Have a "Look".

07/23/2024

♫ ♪♪ Momma he’s crazy ….

Sorry for the Judd’s segue but I’ve been listening to all my old Judd’s favorites since Naomi sadly took her life but this post is about our favorite crazy artist Seňor Dali. I should add almost certifiable crazy artist. Thanks to my friend Paul Chimera who brought this website (sciencedirect.com) and story to my attention. Below is an abstract of the article, not the full article.

“The link between artistic creativity and psychopathology: Salvador Dali” by Caroline Murphy.

“Throughout history, some of the most prominent artists have been linked to mental illness. Salvador Dalí, the well-known Surrealist artist, was ‘famous’ for his ‘craziness’ in both his shocking art and persona. Information on his behaviour and art comes from various sources such as his autobiography; literary texts; published interviews with friends, family, and the artist himself; letters; and data on his family history. Here, in addition to a descriptive analysis of such data, a formal diagnosis exercise was attempted, using two psychiatric assessment procedures: a computer program investigating the presence of psychotic disorder (OPCRIT) and a personality disorder questionnaire (PDQ-R). Dalí was found to meet the diagnostic criteria for several DSM Cluster A and Cluster B personality disorders, as well as for psychotic illnesses. However, these results should be treated with caution, given the ‘hall of mirrors’ Dalí inhabited and the deliberate persona he projected on to the world.”

What are these disorders? Cluster A: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal. Cluster B: antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic.

You can buy a PDF copy of Caroline Murphy’s complete study. I was thinking it would be the basis for a great scholarly post or series of posts about Dali’s sanity. On the other hand you’d have to fork over $35.95 for the PDF. I’m not the crazy one, he is. So this is all you are going to get.

Like I said, ♫ ♪♪ Momma he’s crazy …. And I have the pictures to prove it too!

07/22/2024

Just shoot me!

Dali loved having his picture taken. Per Robert Whitaker’s website, the first words Dali said to him when they first met in 1967 was “Pictures, let’s take lots of pictures. I love being photographed by a sympathetic person. I am the greatest pr******te in posing for pictures in the world”.

It seems that a UPI photographer picked up on that too. Here’s a newspaper photo and blurb from 1941 titled “Dali Again” with Dali posing in his room at the St. Francis in San Francisco.

Whitaker, best known for his pictures of the Beatles took a number of iconic shots of Dali as well. A lot of them fall into the category of what you would call zany. Here’s a few. The last one in this series is a 1969 Turkish magazine that has four of them. Enjoy!

07/21/2024

Meow !

Fans of Claudia Schiffer's were disappointed to hear plans have fallen through for the supermodel to portray Amanda Lear in a movie about her life.

Claudia Schiffer had been scouted for the role in the film version of Lear's book, "My Life with Dali." Amanda told the following to Night magazine about meeting with Claudia.

"So they gave her the book to read, and then she apparently read the book and she said to me, 'Amanda, I really like your book. Who wrote it for you?'

And I said to her, 'I'm glad you liked it. Who read it to you?' And that was the end of that."

Meow!

07/20/2024

I Don’t Understand

On a website that I regularly post photos of Dali and his art, a gentleman posted a picture of Dali’s Allegory of an American Christmas which is the first photo shown here. He asked if anyone had some details about the painting.

If you look closely at the bottom right of the painting, you’ll see the signature and date. Photo #2 is a close up of that area. You can see that it clearly says 1934 as the date. The “Dali” part of the signature certainly looks to be consistent with an early signature. The “Salvador” and “Gala” part of the signature is smudged and somewhat illegible.

Ok, then it is a 1934 painting by Dali so let’s go to the art index on the Foundations website to pick up a bit more information. Uh-ho, the painting doesn’t show up with the other ones he painted in 1934. What’s going on here?

A bit of research turned up this from the website dalipaintings.com:

“Allegory of an American Christmas was painted in 1934, while Dali and Gala were on the first of what was to become many visits to the US. The country had long intrigued Dali and on this first trip, he was greatly impressed with it, especially with the media, who afforded him the attention that he needed and craved. Dali loved the idea of a "new country" and the opportunities he saw there; these feelings are reflected in the painting.

Dali used the image of an egg-shaped stone often during the Thirties. In the Allegory of an American Christmas, as with the later painting The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, the egg produces the idea of hatching or birth of something new; of a change taking place. Here, the huge stone egg fills the painting, hovering ominously over the flat, blue land. The dark clouds on the horizon heighten the atmosphere of expectancy. A distorted golden plane is breaking free from a hole in the egg. The black hole forms the shape of the northern US, with South America painted in golden colors beneath it.”

OK, they say 1934 but why is it not on the Foundation’s website? It turns out that the painting was one of three Dali “Allegory” paintings that were used in the December 1943 issue of Esquire magazine. All three magazine images are pictured here- American, Russian and English.

A check of the Foundation’s Dali paintings for 1943 has our painting listed there. Attached are two photos of their information on the painting. The second card says “the iconographic elements correspond to those of paintings from 1943. It is for this reason that we have it (sic at) the later date”.

Well now didn’t the people from dalipaintings.com list some 1934 “iconographic elements” in their description of the painting? The Foundation is basically saying that Dali got his dates backwards (1934 versus 1943). Well, somebody’s got it bass-ackwards. So, you are on your own to figure out who is right. Good luck with that!

07/19/2024

Tugging at the string of his art

Quite a few times over the years Dali has used string in his art. Take this 1932 painting titled Anthropomorphic Bread – Catalonian Bread. Dali uses string to hold up the curved bread. Again in 1932 he used string to hold up a fried egg in Fried Eggs on the Plate Without the Plate. In his 1944 Bryans Nylon ad he uses string again. In Cecil Beaton’s photo Dali and Gala used string to hold up the paintings and finally there is this well-known magazine picture of Dali attached to a painting by string.

Now that I have your attention, my real purpose here is not to tell you how Dali used string in his art but how he used string to carry his art .

As far back as 1934 newspaper reports (The Telegraph- London) tell of Dali traveling by train while attached to all of his paintings by a string. I wasn’t able to find a picture of him doing that way back then but he must have continued with the practice since I was able to find this 1970’s era photo of him attached to his briefcase with a string.

The question is was he afraid he would forget his valuable cargo or was he afraid someone would try to steal it or both. I think it was number one.

07/18/2024

Three Stars

The winner of yesterday’s quiz is me. I get to keep my book of dedications. A lot of people read the post but I did not have even one brave soul take a stab at it. Well here are the answers.

The first photo is with famous dancer and Academy Award winning actress Ginger Rogers. She is probably best noted for the ten movies she made with dancer Fred Astaire. It turns out that the anniversary of her birthday was a couple of days ago on July 16th.

The second photo is Dali with the famous pin up girl and actress Lana Turner. This Academy Award nominated actress is also widely known for her personal life which included seven marriages. My thanks to the professor for these two photos.

The third photo is a 1949 photo taken on the set of a New York TV show titled “We’re On” that had a young Yul Brynner as a co-host with Virginia Gilmore who is seated next to Dali. Brynner is most noted for his role in “The King and I”.

07/17/2024

Who Dat?

Dali met them all. Here are two photos of Dali with famous 1940’s female movie stars (thanks Professor!) and a third photo of Dali with cartoonist Al Capp watching a famous star-to-be playing the guitar. The first one who can correctly identify all three celebrities in the comments section of this post will win a nice book of Dali dedication drawings. Tomorrow’s post will reveal the winner and a bit of information on the stars.

07/16/2024

Dali and the super model

Only two years after being “discovered” by photographer David McCabe and Nancy White of Bazaar magazine the 6’ 3” 115 pounder became an international super star model. In 1966 Donyale Luna (Peggy Ann Freeman) became the first African-American to appear on the cover of any Vogue magazine (See Photo British Vogue).

She moved to London and became friends with celebrities like Mick Jagger, Michael Caine and Julie Christie. That same year American photographer William Claxton introduced her to Dali in Cadaques. Dali claimed she was the reincarnation of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti and they began working on a non-scripted series of “happenings” for a TV film.

Pictured here are photos of that shoot that appeared in a 1967 issue of Cavalier magazine and photos obtained elsewhere of Dali and Luna.

The story doesn’t end happily for Donyale. Like so many who achieve fame and fortune, they turn to drugs. She died in Rome on May 17, 1979 at the age of 34 of a he**in overdose. To read more of her life may I suggest you read this London Telegraph piece about her.
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9658276/The-tragic-tale-of-Donyale-Luna.html

07/15/2024

I got that

Just like me, Dali collected magazines that had his picture or his art on the cover. Apparently he kept most of his collection glued to a wall in his home at Port Lligat. (See photo). Before my visit there, I knew that he employed a newspaper clipping service that notified him every time his name appeared in print. I didn’t know about his collection of magazines and photos plastered all over the walls of the one room of his home.

Unfortunately I spent most of our very limited time in the room proudly showing my wife all the magazines on that wall that I also had in my collection of Dali magazines. Then I noticed four magazines that I didn’t have just as the guide was ushering us out of the room. In a panic I hastily shot two photos of the missing magazines as the guide barked “Please sir, move on there are other people waiting to come in!”(See photos)

Although my photos were of poor the quality and lacking in key details like the country of origin of the magazines or their date of issue, these poor quality photos were enough for me to be able to eventually track them down. Now Dali and I have the same magazines in our collections but honestly mine are in much better condition. (See photos)

07/14/2024

Different worlds

Let’s be honest here, when you and I clean out the old attic and round up all that junk that we no longer want and we have a garage sale. Maybe we get enough money to enjoy a nice meal out that evening for all our hard work that day. The leftovers go to a local charity or thrift store.

That’s not what happens when very rich people decide to get rid of their old stuff. They sell theirs at Sotheby’s or some other place like that but definitely not in their garage. Apparently the heirs of Countess de Cuevas de Vera or “Tota” to her friends decided to get rid of some old stuff that had been collecting dust around the house since the 1930’s. They hauled it off to Sotheby’s and let them deal with hordes of bargain hunters.

It seems that they made more than dinner money on the deal. They had to settle for just under $8,230,000 for two old paintings. See the photos.

Oh apparently they had stuff left over too. They had a bunch of old photographs of “Tota” in a drawer somewhere. The photos were taken in Paris by some man back in 1934. Oh yeah, that was his name, Man Ray. Oh well they all got donated to some museum there in Paris.

So the heirs got rid of their old stuff and probably went out and bought some more stuff just like me and you.

07/13/2024

To-ma-toes versus toe-mat-toes

I always loved the Three Stooges especially Curley. Dali apparently loved the Marx Brothers, especially Harpo. Although the Marx Brothers were around earlier (1905 to 1949) I am sure that Dali had to be aware of the Three Stooges (1934 to 1953). The two group’s humor was different. I just preferred the Stooges.

Dali met Harpo in Paris in 1936 at a party. Harpo liked Dali’s art and Dali especially liked the brother’s film Animal Crackers and Harpo’s surrealistic humor in the film. When Harpo got back to the states, Dali sent him a harp wrapped in cellophane with barbed wire for strings and spoons, knives and forks glued all over its frame. In return Harpo sent Dali a photograph of himself playing the harp with bandaged fingers. He invited Dali to Hollywood when Dali was back in country.

When the two did get together in 1937 they did manage to generate quite a bit of news print (see photo). Attached are press photos of that meeting and Dali’s sketch of Harpo.

07/12/2024

Dali the Recycler

Dali was an early proponent of recycling. Take for example this 1939 photo of Dali “painting” Gala at the 1939 World’s Fair. As you can easily see Gala is just poking her head out of a slit made on the canvas. It was a very clever and eye-catching pose.

I happened upon this second photo from years later that shows Dail painting in Port Lligat. The painting is quite unusual because it has some items attached to the canvas. I had never seen this painting before, and I’ve never seen a Dali canvas where he attached some good sized object (collages don’t count!) to it. I couldn’t figure it out, so I asked “The Professor” about the painting.

“The Professor” sent me the last three photos and said they were screen grabs from a short film Dali made in Port Lligat. As you can see, Dali used his old Gala’s head through the canvas pose again. The canvas was just for the movie, so it is assumed it was discarded but at least he did recycle the idea for the pose.

07/11/2024

Photographer Kary H. Lasch

Hungarian born Kary Lasch was a very successful internation photographer that worked out of his model scouting business in Stockholm Sweden. Although he photographed many international stars and had his work appear on many magazine covers, he was lesser known than many of his peers.

Several of the photos Lasch took of Dali are quite familiar to Dali fans but a number of the photos shown here that “The Professor” was kind enough to share with me I’d never seen before. I took the liberty to colorize a few of them.

In her blog titled “Viktoria´s Bookshelf” author Jan Lundgren wrote about the following amusing anecdote about Lasch meeting Dali.
“One time, he decided to go see Salvador Dali. He knocked twice, but the great artist was not at home. Or so he was told. Lasch then went to a bookstore, asked for the best biography of Dali, noted the author´s name, and the third time he knocked, said he had a greeting from the biographer. Dali welcomed him with open arms. Lasch may have told a lie or two, but he knew how to tell them, he knew how successful people behaved. As long as you were generous and of use, a little lie would be nothing to them. They had probably all got where they were the same way.”

07/10/2024

The Figures Tell a Story

The other day a reader commented that they found my series of posts on Rebekah Harkness to be “So Interesting”. That got me thinking and I looked at the Facebook statistics for my recent posts. Facebook measures several things including post reach (the number of people who saw any of the post at least once) and post engagement (the number of times people engaged with a post through reactions, comments, shares and clicks). The attached two charts show those figures for my post about Dali on the cover of a Pl***oy magazine (blue) versus seven of the subsequent Harkness posts.

The figures for these posts and for all my other posts show that readership falls way off when the topic isn’t directly tied to something about Dali and that is a real shame. These people who were around Dali like Rebekah Harkness are in my humble opinion quite interesting and in some cases more interesting than Dali.

The whole purpose of this post is to gently ask you to expand your horizons a bit and read these posts that aren’t directly Dali related. Thank you.

07/09/2024

Epilogue

Mostly Together
In Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York in the William Lamon Harkness family mausoleum (see photo) rests the remains of Bill Harkness, Rebekah Harkness, and Edith Harkness – all together once again.

The Beat Goes On
In 2013 pop singer Taylor Swift purchased Holiday House for $17.75 million in cash. In 2020 she wrote a song about Rebekah titled The Last Great American Dynasty.

Craig Unger wrote an excellent story for New York magazine which was the basis for much of the detail of this story. It can be found online. If you prefer to read his book, you can get this copy on Amazon for only $692. Its only money and apparently you can’t buy happiness with it, so what are you waiting for?

07/08/2024

Dali & Rebekah

Rebekah and Dali’s paths crossed many times when he was in New York and they were well acquainted with each other. Shown here are some photos of Rebekah with Dali. Rebekah supposedly hired Dali to give Terry art lessons when she was a child. She had many pieces of his jewelry and art. Here are some anecdotes about some of them.

Edith Harkness Portrait
When she was a young girl, Dali was commissioned by Rebekah to paint a portrait of Edith. The Dali portrait showed a young Edith sitting in a gold bird cage. How insightful. The family’s reaction was mixed but Edith loved it. Reportedly after her mother’s death, the only thing Edith requested was the portrait. Where is the portrait now? The present owner doesn’t want it shown because of Edith’s tortured life and su***de. The authors of the free on-line book Dali American Portraits were able to find the attached photo of Rebekah sitting in front of Edith’s portrait.

The Starfish Jewel
At one of Rebekah’s pre-theater parties Dali passed up the hors d’oeuvres only to find out too late that a full dinner was not being served. Later he told jeweler Carlos Alemany that he would make Rebekah pay for his missed dinner. That week he sold her the Starfish Jewel for $45,000. In 1995 the piece sold at auction for $170,000. It sold again at auction in 2023 for just under a million dollars.

The Chalice of life
In 1965, shortly after Rebekah pulled all financing from Joffrey ballet, she purchased Dali’s Chalice of Life for $250,000. Rebekah asked her press secretary Marian Horosko to get Life magazine to run a story about her and the chalice. Horosko explained to Rebejah that cutting off funds for the ballet and then purchasing this expensive piece would make her look bad in the public eye. She reluctantly agreed and asked “but what will I do with it?” Horosko jokingly said “put your ashes in it”. Rebekah thought it was a wonderful idea. Because the chalice rotated, she could pirouette forever!

When it came time to put Rebekah’s ashes into the chalice, they discovered that the chalice was out of its case and away for cleaning. At the crematorium Terry was given her mother’s ashes in a brown paper bag. When the chalice was back from cleaning, they discovered that it was not big enough to hold all of her ashes. Karma is a bitch.

Up next : Epilog

07/07/2024

The Poor Rich Children

Allen Pierce
Except for the years with Bill Harkness he was left to his own devices. At 16 he was given a new Mercedes 300 SL and had a Century Coronado speed boat that was the fastest around. He refused all attempts by his mother to interest himself in dance. He resented the dance troupe’s stays at Holiday House so he spent much of his time traveling.

By the late 1970’s he had spent or lost most of his inheritance and was living in a middle-class neighborhood in Miami. While working for a security company he was studying to be a locksmith and an upholsterer. On Thanksgiving Day 1977 Allen got into a fight outside a convenience store and shot and killed a man. He was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. On appeal the charges were reduced to manslaughter and given a 15-year sentence. He told his mother in their last conversation “Maybe it’s better this way. Maybe I’m better off”.
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Anne Terry Pierce
Terry’s life was also filled with tragedy. In 1966 she married Anthony McBride and had a child named Leilani or Angel. Tragically the baby was born missing part of her brain, suffered from digestive disorders and had impaired sight and hearing. Angel died in 1977 at the age of 10.

After divorcing McBride in 1973 she was introduced to Dr. Neils Lauersen by a friend as a potential suitor. Lauersen ended up marrying her mother Rebekah instead. Terry had two other marriages. The first to Alin M. Gillieaux in 1974 that lasted less than a year and finally to Wolfgang Von Falkenburg (see photo).
In Terry’s will, most of her $44 million estate was to be split into 7 shares with her brother receiving one of those shares. While in hospice care suffering from renal failure Falkenburg had her will changed to favor him so that the others would get one seventh share of only $1 million. Just days before her death Falkenburg married her and received the remainder of her estate.
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Edith Hale Harkness
She was described as smart, fragile and very good looking (see photo). She was the only true Harkness of the three children. Later she would say that she contemplated su***de at the age of six when her father died. As she grew into adolescence her mother become more remote as she devoted her time to dance and music. At age 12 her mother tried to force her to take up dance. Edith responded by jumping out of the window of their penthouse on the 16th floor of the Westbury hotel. Although severely injured she survived the fall only because of a buildup of snow on the hotel’s rear awning. After the fall her next five years were spent at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.

In her early 20’s Edith married, had a child, divorced and gave up custody of her only child. She refused to ever meet with her mother until Rebekah was on her deathbed when they reconciled. She grieved for her mother now that she was gone. Her old demons, the weight issues and alcohol returned. Contesting her mother’s will was another source of pressure. Having been institutionalized three times before, she was afraid her lawyer who had power of attorney over her would have her permanently committed.

On August 22, 1982, just two months after her mother’s death Edith took her own life with a combination of drugs and alcohol.

Up Next: Harkness and Dali

07/06/2024

After The Dance

Following the collapse of her dance empire and dreams, Rebekah turned to drugs and alcohol. In 1977 she entered Silver Hill a private hospital to recuperate from her drug and alcohol problem. In 1978 she was diagnosed with cancer and an ovarian tumor the size of a football was removed. For the next four years Rebekah battled cancer, kidney and intestinal issues. She was told in May of 1982 by the doctors that she only had 10 days to live.

As Rebekah lay dying in a hospital room she never called her children to come. Rebekah’s doctor had to make the calls. Edith, her child with Bill Harkness, was having her own problems with anorexia and obesity. She did come to see her mother and the two reconciled. Terry, her daughter with Pierce, arrived and at Rebekah’s doctor’s insistence she phoned her brother Allen who was in a Florida prison. Rebekah apologized for not speaking to him for years and for making him the black sheep of the family.

Once all hope was gone Rebekah left the hospital and returned to her apartment at the Carlyle Hotel. With Edith at her side the once strong and powerful Rebekah was now emaciated beyond recognition. As Edith and Terry kept watch, Rebekah died in her room at the Carlyle the evening of June 17, 1982.

The Will
In 1981 she decided to get her affairs in order. Despite access to top notch lawyers, she had a 15 page will drawn up by a local attorney recommended to her by her chauffeur. The will reflected her love of the arts and her estrangement from her children.

Here are some of its highlights: Her ashes would be placed in a chalice she had purchased from Dali called The Chalice of Life. The bulk of her estate went to her Harkness Ballet. She felt that since her late husband had already provided several millions in trust to each child that was enough for them. She did give Allen, who was broke and in jail, a one-seventh share in a million-dollar trust. Edith was to get a portrait made of her by Dali and a jade collection. Terry got another Dali painting and a ring. Rebekah’s jewelry collection including Dali’s Star of the Sea was to go to the White House for use by the nation’s First Ladies.

Much haggling and changes to the will caused it to be challenged by Allen and Terry following Rebekah’s death.

Up Next: The Poor Rich Children

07/05/2024

Dance, Dance, Dance

In 1961 she decided to become a ballet master and lavishly sponsored the prestigious Robert Joffrey’s ballet troop. Jane Remer, the assistant director of the company recalled: 'I sat at a desk worth more than my apartment! On any given morning when she and I had something to talk about, Rebekah would come down in her pink and blue leotards and literally stand on her head, and we would have the conversation with her standing on her head”.

She began writing her own ballets and when Joffrey refused to perform one of them, she withdrew her sponsorship of his dance troop and hired his entire troop of dancers out from under him. She was quoted later as saying 'You see, money can buy anything'.

In 1964 she established her own ballet troop, Harkness Ballet. It preformed mainly in Europe to positive reviews. In 1972, she purchased the historic 1905 Colonial Theater near Lincoln Center and renamed it The Harkness Theater (See photo). The theater was completely remodeled with state-of-the-art dance stage flooring. (See photos). Its first season in the renovated facility was 1974. Due to a sluggish economy, the theater’s limited capacity, and poor reviews, Rebekah was unable to find additional sponsors. The company disbanded in 1975. In 1977 Rebekah was forced to sell the theater at a great loss to a developer for $1million. He tore the building down.

In addition to the Harkness Theater she opened Harkness House for Ballet Arts in New York. It was the rehearsal and training center for the Harkness Ballet, and housed the Harkness Ballet School It operated from a renovated building that once was the home of Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM (See photo). Over the years many credited the school for having a positive impact on their careers and many future famous dancers got their start there. Many say that this institution was Rebekah’s main contribution to dance.

Up Next: After The Dance

07/04/2024

Rebekah Set Free

With almost unlimited funds and with no one to rein her in, Rebekah was free to pursue her dreams. She fashioned herself as a composer, sculptor, dance patron and philanthropist. During the 1950’s she made three semi-classical records which were self-financed vanity pressings that received good reviews only from society columnists.

In 1957, Harkness was commissioned by her friend Marquis de Cuevas (see photo of Dali’s portrait of him) to compose a ballet score for his Grand Ballet which would be performed at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. Her composition, Journey to Love, was extraordinarily well received. That success turned Harkness' ongoing interest in dance into a full-blown obsession. As she pursued her dreams, she ignored her children and left their rearing to others.

Up Next: Dance, Dance, Dance

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Dali and Holograms If your knowledge of Dali’s holographic work is limited to his “The Brain of Alice Cooper” like mine was, well you are in for a big surprise. Dali was actually involved in six other holographic works. Let’s don’t get ahead of ourselves. Let’s start at the beginning. Two dimensional means having or appearing to have length and breadth but no depth, whereas three-dimensional means appearing to have length, breadth and dept. In 1947 Hungarian born scientist Dennis Gabor figured out a way to record three-dimensional space on a two dimensional surface. In 1971 he won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his idea and he became known as “The Father of Holography”. (photo at end) An entrepreneur named Selwyn Lissack (photo with Dali) who co-founded the NY School of Holography and the International Holographic Corp. His company had pioneered and sold commercial applications of the technology. In 1971 he met with Dali to discuss getting Dali to implement the technology in his art. Given Dali’s keen interest in science and new technology it was an easy sell. (photo at end) Over the next five years (1971 to 1976) Selwyn Lissack and Dali collaborated to produce these seven holographic works of art. Dali Painting Gala – This piece conceived in 1976 is very interesting in that the image in the hologram is a takeoff of Dali’s 1972/73 stereoscopic work Dali From the Back Painting Gala from the Back. In the hologram Gala is holding another stereoscopic work, Dali’s 1973 Gala’s Foot. This Animated GIF does not show the full 360◦ hologram. The second photo shows the missing portion of the hologram The Brain of Alice Cooper – This 1973 piece that is owned by The Dali Museum rotates on a motorized turntable. A view of it working can be seen here on this YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5h_sGpGls ) The Crystal Grotto – This 1971 3D holographic collage was commissioned by Eleanor and Reynolds Morse. The image represents a