INTERVIEW – The Irish academic devoted ten years of his life to the painter Salvador Dali, whose biography published in 1997 has finally been translated into French. Meeting in Madrid where he dives into his memories.
In 1997, a biography of Dali was published by the English publisher Faber and Faber, if not definitive, at least very exhaustive in terms of the abundance of details and the sources cited by Ian Gibson, its author. This Irish academic, specialist in the Spanish Civil War, author of several works on the poet Federico Garcia Lorca still lives today in Madrid where we met him.
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He is delighted that the Cherche Midi editions are finally translating this sum and publishing it, what is more, in the hybrid form of a biography hidden under the trappings of a beautiful book. At 85 years old, this art and literature enthusiast returns to this work which occupied him for ten years and immerses himself in the artist’s life during a visit to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where Dali met Buñuel and Lorca.
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