Key collaborators included Léonide Massine, choreographer and director of the Ballets Russes; Coco Chanel, who designed costumes and accessories; and Prince Alexandre Schervachidze, legendary scenographer for the Ballets Russes, who oversaw production of the set at the company’s workshop in Monte Carlo. The artist most synonymous with Surrealism in the public imagination (to the irritation of the movement’s founder, André Breton), Dalí is best known for hyperrealist paintings and fetishistic objects like his 1938 Lobster Telephone. Behind it stretches the Ampurdan Plain, a rocky waste near Dalí’s birthplace in Spain, and in the far distance rises the temple seen in Raphael’s 1504 painting The Marriage of the Virgin.
Author: Anne Doran
Published at: 2026-03-03 23:04:51
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