While on a recent holiday in southern Florida, my wife and I visited the Salvador Dalà Museum in St. Petersburg <http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/>. Currently running is the exhibition "Dalà Centennial: An American Collection" which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of DalÃ. One of the paintings on display is "Noon (Barracks Port Lligat)" which Dalà painted in 1954 <http://dali.karelia.ru/html/works/1954_07.htm>. The painting shows a vertical sundial on the wall of the barracks. Can any of our Spanish colleagues tell us if the building and the sundial still exist?
Of course, Dalà was no stranger to sundials as witnessed by his famous sundial at 27, rue Saint-Jacques, Paris 5ème arrondissement <http://www2.iap.fr/saf/csmp/arr5n/centrea51.html> constructed in 1968. The image on the sundial bears a bit of a resemblance to his 1966 painting "Self Portrait Sundial" <http://www.elainefineart.com/dali/self_portrait_sundial.htm> Are there any other Dalà sundials -- real or painted? -- Richard Langley P.S. Fredericton is home to DalÃ's huge Satiago El Grande. It is on permanent display in the city's Beaverbrook Art Gallery <http://www.beaverbrookartgallery.org/>, one of 4 Dalà paitings it owns. The gallery was a gift to New Brusnwick from its native son Lord Beaverbrook (Sir Max Aitken) who served in the wartime cabinet of Winston Churchill. Lord Beaverbrook was chancellor of my university from 1947 until his death in 1964. =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ =============================================================================== -
