Seated Girl Seen from the Back, 1928 by Salvador Dali (1904- | Serious Art
Seated Girl Seen from the Back, 1928 by Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Oil on canvas 41 × 30 in; 104 × 74 cm
From an interview by Mike Wallace with Dali:
WALLACE: . . . what do you think will happen to you when you die? DALI: myself not believe in my death. WALLACE: You will not die? DALI: No, no believe in general in death but in the death of Dali absolutely not. Believe in my death becoming very -- almost impossible. WALLACE: You fear death? DALI: Yes. WALLACE: Death is beautiful but you fear death? DALI: Exactly......because Dali is contradictory and paradoxical man.
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