"For Dalí, Paris is never a backdrop: it is a mental architecture where perspective bends to the dream."
A leading figure of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was born and died in Figueres, Catalonia. Endowed with a virtuoso technique inherited from the Old Masters, he developed his "paranoiac-critical method," a system of thought in which the image splits and reality tips into a controlled delirium. His vision of Paris follows the same logic: in the etched and drawn suites devoted to the capital, he distorts perspectives, theatricalises squares and monuments, and turns the city into a dreamlike space. Far from topography, Dalí's Paris is a projection of the imagination — true to his conviction that reality is only a starting point for the dream.