Dali Planet #16: Dandy in residence
While a student at the San Fernando Academy, Dali lived at the Residencia de Estudiantes, then itself a prestigious cultural institution, an incubator for Spain’s brightest young thinkers, among them Dali’s new friends Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunuel.
At the same time, he submerged his natural shyness in flamboyance. He dressed as a dandy, with long hair and sideburns and stockings and knee breeches of a sort not seen in a century.
This is a self-portrait from 1921, the sketch above from 1922.
