lefay:

oldhollywood:

Simone Mareuil in Un Chien Andalou (1929, dir. Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali) (online here)

pabloneruda:

oldhollywood:

Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali, circa 1930

Impress that special surrealist girl in your life*:

“As a young man, [Salvador] Dali was totally asexual, and forever making fun of friends who fell in love or ran after women - until the day he lost his virginity to Gala & wrote me a 6-page letter detailing, in his own inimitable way, the pleasures of carnal love. (Gala’s the only woman he ever really made love to. Of course, he’s seduced many, particularly American heiresses; but those seductions usually entailed stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman’s shoulders, and, without a word, showing them to the door.)”

-excerpted from Luis Buñuel’s autobiography, My Last Sigh

*Remember to allow eggs to cool for at least 2 minutes before applying

louisxiv:

Salvador Dali in a commercial for Lanvin Chocolate (not affiliated with Jeanne Lanvin)

sealmaiden:

Salvador Dali

The Three Sphinxes of Bikini 1947

madadmen:

“A strong factor in Dali’s ostracism from the critical fold was always his exhibitionism: the absurd moustachios, the gigolo manner, the preposterous English in which he yoked together rhinoceros horns and concepts from nuclear physics, his department-store window stunts, his playing up to the American news media, his strangely asexual devotion to his wife, Gala (‘she has the look that pierces walls’), the bizarre space he occupied somewhere between American Vogue and a seaside freak show. The paintings came and went, as original and voluptuous as ever, but their seriousness was diminished by the stunts and tomfoolery. Only now are people beginning to look earnestly at the entirety of his lifetime’s work and judge him as a painter rather than a performer.”

madadmen:

1968 French Chocolate ad feat. Salvador Dali.

(via funeralface)