I went to The Salvadore Dali Museum in St. Petersburg shortly after it opened in 1982. In 2010 the collection has been housed in an appropriately bizarre and surreal museum.
My favorite is The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968-1970) which, last I heard was at the Tate in London. Toreador is a classic double image, ‘atomic’ painting and numerous other recurrent themes he developed over the years.
Dali suffered from numerous mental conditions including bouts of depression, anxiety, phobias. He experienced hallucinations fugue states, night terrors and, it is said, needed help maintaining himself at times. The issue of his psychiatric disorders is confounded by his persistent and exaggerated showmanship.
