Dalí y el surrealismo

Many of his paintings are inspired by and embody his love for this part of Spain. He was in charge of of accounts and dealt with galleries and merchants. She encouraged him to paint and had enormous influence on his artistic production. A secretive and intuitive woman, not afraid of controversy, she spent her childhood in Moscow and attended university courses at a finishing school in St Petersburg.

The daughter of Ivan and Antonine Diakonoff, she had two older brothers and a younger sister. Her father died when she was eleven, her mother remarried a lawyer who was able to provide Gala with the means to a good education.

Dalí museum architect

She studied at the Brukhonenko academy and gained high marks, becoming qualified to teach in schools. It was here that she met and fell in love with the young Paul Eluard , he was 18, she was Their mutual love of literature and culture bought them together; they were both discharged Her health back on track, Gala is now officially engaged to Eluard.

In her parents allow her to join Eluard in Paris. Gala was a regular attendee of this auspicious circle of intellectuals. She follows him to Paris and begins to influence and be part of the Surrealist movement. So powerful and all-consuming was the affair, Gala effectively abandoned her own daughter when she was eleven years old.

Cecile went to live with her paternal grandmother in Paris. She was never very warm..