So after more final provisioning in France, we drove unmolested into Spain, all the way to Figueres and our probably favorite one-person museum, the Dali in Figueres. We parked, as in 2010, at the Esclat
hipermercat and made our first stop the Dali museo, arriving close to the opening time on Good Friday, Vicki's birthday. Most everything else in Spain is closed, but the Dali was of course open. On Easter Sunday too. I promised not to take all the same pix again nor to post them. You can see the earlier ones from February, 2010.
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| En route to the museum...the contagion spreads |
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| And there we are |
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And there we are, in the courtyard, before the 1938 Paris taxi with the
world's largest hood ornament |
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| Taxi interior |
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| Portrait of Vermeer in an enigmatic landscape |
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| The Abe Lincoln room more mobbed than usual |
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| Over a doorway: a self-parody of the Mae West installation? |
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Ceiling of the Hall of Winds, Ascent of Salvador and Gala into Heaven; vastly
improved from my photo of 2010 |
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| Dali shoe tree I had missed before |
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Throughout the collection, many old friends, a few new ones, some old friends
apparently moved elsewhere... |
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| "When it falls down, it falls down" |
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| "Bed and two nightstands attacking a cello" |
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Satisfied with 3 or 4 hours of this, we left and took a stroll
through the shoppes of old Figueres and then returned at 1PM
to find the line to get to the ticket office more than a block
long; evidently you don't have to be crazy to like Dali; but it
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2 comments:
We have never been to the Dali Museum, but it is on our bucket list. Every time I think of Dali, I just picture him from "Midnight in Paris."
All is well...counting down...10 days to the wedding.
We'll be thinking of you on Wedding Day and wish we could be there. But Europe is not bad, as you well know! Best of everything to all.
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