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The Salvador Dali Legacy:Fights And Frauds
| At his death in 1989, The great Surrealist left behind an empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Today he, the Spanish foundation that bears his name and Dutch company that claims to own it are locked in a global legal battles control - Arrives--and to market everything from Dali perfume to deodorant. By Nicholas Powell It is barely nine in the morning in the Catalan town in Figueras, with and a line of people who stretches around block. The attraction appears to be a flamboyant needle fortress. Its height, plum red walls are decorated with a pastry like ocher sculptures and toped with giant white eggs. Inside the fourth occasions are such curiosity is as he concedes Cadillac occupied by dummies that are periodically sprinkled water, a large canvas of the new woman's back that, at second glance, resembles a portrait of George Washington. Two CDs and other spectacles in the Salvador Dolly theater Museum, which opened in 1974, more than 800,000 paying visitors -- admission is 1,000 Pesetas, or about five dollars--flock to Figueres over the past year. Occupying Canadian 19th-century Playhouse that was gutted by fire in 1939, the theater museum was one of Salvador Dale's final big projects. (the greatest Surrealist and paranoid showman--who die at the age 84 in 1989, is appropriately buried here beneath an unmarked slab, under what was once the theater center stage). The Salvador Dali Museum, in St. Petersburg, Florida, which houses a permanent collection of Dali oils, draws some 250,000 visitors a year. |
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