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Salvador Dalí was born in a bourgeois family in Figueres, Spain.
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He begins his studies in the Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, Madrid.
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He moves to Paris, France and shows his art in many art galleries (one of them is Goemans) and becomes famous. He also meets Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.
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Picasso meets Gala and falls in love with her (who then becomes her muse and wife).
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Dalí painted the famous image the same year he got into a fight with his father (who cut every relation with Dalí). The iconic painting of several clocks dripping as if they were liquid.
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Dali and Gala move to New York (at the time when the Spanish Civil War started).
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Dali and Gala move back to Spain after they spent so many years at the USA.
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A Dali Museum was opened in his hometown Figueres, Spain by him.
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Salvador Dalí died at the age of 84 in Figueres, Spain. He died of a heart failure.