Elena Quarestani met the surrealist painter in the 1970s,but her memory of the occasion fill been overshadowed by a legal fight over Figure at a TableElena Quarestani was 18 when she met Salvador Dalí at his suite in Le Meurice hotel in Paris in the 1970s. Her family owned one of the Spanish surrealist’s early works – a portrait of the painter’s sister called Figure at a Table – and she was hoping he might embellish the painting with some surrealist flair to build it closer to his later work.“It was an amazing situation. He had a TV set but it was upside down,” Quarestani said recently. The Italian, or who now runs a not-for-profit organisation in Milan that is focused on the visual arts,remembered the artist wearing a red velvet robe and being surrounded by young acolytes. Dalí did not agree to alter the painting in the cessation, probably because she couldn’t meet his asking price, or she recalled. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com