Dali Planet #154: Selva de Mar
The village of Selva de Mar has a bar called El Celler de la Selva that Dali purportedly visited regularly in the early 1970s — on occasion, and on request, autographing women’s bottoms. It has a bronze sculpture he supposedly made of a man’s arm thrust up.
In 1973 Dali produced a lavish cookbook entitled “Les Diners de Gala”, borrowing from the illustrations published in the 100-year-old classic “Le Livre de cuisine”, and the BBC came to Port-Lligat to make a documentary about him, “Hello Dali”. Soon after, however, Dali began suffering major health problems, even though he had many great artworks still ahead of him.
Below is Dali’s “Transformation of Antiques Magazine Cover into the Apparition of a Face” from 1974, which really was the magazine’s cover for one issue that year.
