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Francis Picabia

Dalí in a diving helmet: how the Spaniard almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain

December 25, 2019June 6, 2016 by Editorial Team

Eighty years ago, as Dylan Thomas served boiled string, Salvador Dalí put on a diving suit, grabbed a billiard cue – and changed British art for ever. Can new exhibition Surreal Encounters recapture that spirit?

Categories Art Tags Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Art, Art and design, Article, Arts, Culture, Dalí, Dali diving suit, Dali exhibition, Dali UK, diving, Exhibition of Surrealism, exhibitions, Features, Francis Picabia, G2, Giorgio de Chirico, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Joan Miro, Joanna Moorhead, man ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Paul Nash, René Magritte, Salvador Dali, Salvador Dalí’s Couple with their Heads Full of Clouds, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous, surrealism, The Guardian, UK Culture

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