Salvador Dali and Gala

Many men dream of a woman who would love them selflessly and faithfully, passionately wanted to have it, could understand and support morally in difficult times. Salvador Dali was lucky — in his wife he found his mother, lover and friend in one person. No wonder his wife Elena Dyakonova took a new name Gala (emphasis on the last syllable, like any French word), which means "holiday", "celebration". For many men, she became the fireworks that transforms the night, and for Dali she was also a source of inspiration.
Gala and Dali first met in the summer of 1929, but the artist himself claimed that he saw his Muse much earlier when he was in the first grade. One of his friends gave him a fountain pen. Inside the glass ball was a girl in a fluffy fur coat. Later Dali recalled: "in every cell of my being from the pupils to the fingertips imprinted at that moment her image. My Russian girl, wrapped in white fur, was carried away by a trio-almost miraculously she escaped from a pack of ferocious wolves with burning eyes. She looked at me without averting her gaze, and so much pride was in her face that her heart sank in admiration... Was it Gala? I never doubted it; it was her."

In September 1929, the place where the young Dalí lived and worked was the village of cadaqués, located near the town of Port Agatha. The artist was already known in society for his eccentricity, panic fear of the female sex, and, of course, an unusual manner of painting. At the age of 25, Salvador remained a virgin, preferring to flirt and courtship reading the works of Friedrich Nietzsche.
People who communicated with him during this period, said that Dali — a man "with great oddities." His reactions were unexpected and not typical of adults. The appearance of the artist also caused gossip. A skinny young man with a curly moustache and napolnennyj hair attracted the eye of passers-by. Salvador Dali wore shirts made of silk of incredible colors, bracelets made of fake pearls and extravagant sandals — all this added oil to the fire, the gossip about him did not subside.

At this time, Gala, which is ten years older than Dali, has already managed to get a husband, daughter and lover. Born in 1894 in Kazan, then Elena Dyakonova always knew that she would Shine, and not to vegetate in the provincial wilderness. In her diary, she wrote: "I will never be just a housewife. I'll read a lot, a lot. I'll do whatever you want, but at the same time preserve the attractiveness of women, which is itself not pererostaet. I'll be like the harlot Shine, smells like perfume and always have manicured hands with manicured nails."
In 1912, her parents sent her to Switzerland to be treated for tuberculosis. There she met the poet eugène-Emile-Paul GRANDEL. Later she will give him the name Paul Eluard, and she calls herself Gala. Their romance will end with a wedding, Gala moved to Paris. By the time of her meeting with Salvador Dali, She was no longer a painful shy girl from Russia, she turned into a real Parisian, the very cocotka that drove crazy the most inaccessible men.

In the summer of 1929, Paul Eluard and his wife were invited to the village of cadaqués, to the young Spanish artist Salvador Dali. The owner wanted to meet guests in an unusual way. He tore his silk shirt, shaved his armpits and painted them blue, rubbed the body with a mixture of fish glue, goat droppings and lavender, put a geranium flower behind his ear. But being still unnoticed, I saw the guest and immediately ran to change clothes. In front of the Field and his wife Dali, contrary to the plan, appeared almost a normal person, but the Gala is so shocked the artist that he was attacked by a fit of hysterical laughter. This did not scare her off, on the contrary, only fueled mutual interest. "I immediately realized that he was a genius," gala wrote.
Thus began their stormy romance, which lasted until the death of the artist's beloved in 1982.
Three years later, she left her husband and moved to Dali, the same year they got married. But the religious ceremony took place only in 1958, after the death of Paul Eluard. Gala could not afford to get married to another out of respect for the former spouse.

Dali and Gala became an ideal couple. A flighty, highly disorganized genius, with a whole list of phobias and a rational, cold-blooded Muse. Their day was based on the scheme, which Gala described as: "in the Morning El Salvador makes mistakes, and in the afternoon I correct them, tearing lightly signed contracts." She helped Dali to become a symbol of the era, she created an Empire around his name. Some saw it as a support and support, without which Dali's talent would have perished in obscurity, others called it a predator, hungry for money and appropriating the glory of her husband.
Salvador Dali and Gala are constantly under the gun cameras. They lead an active public life and constantly get on the covers of magazines. In 1934, Gala takes the next step in the" promotion " of Salvador Dali. She's taking him to America. Where, as not in the United States, will be extravagant, no one like the artist. The country, in love with everything new and unusual, responded to all the most incredible ideas Given and was ready to pay a lot of money for them.
From America, Dali and Gala returned very rich and very famous. The condition and popularity of the couple is multiplied and growing, but the main thing is gone — the strength and beauty of the Gala. She still poses for her artist a lot. Gave it depicts the painting "the Madonna of Port Ligat" another picture of Christopher Columbus carries the flag with her portrait and words: "I love Gala more mothers, more than father, more than Picasso and even more money." Such blasphemy family Salvador Dali long could not forgive him. But the artist did not care, he worshipped gala, considered Her his inspirer, wife, mother and friend.

As time went on, the Gala was getting old and even a series of successive young lovers did not bring her peace and joy. Dali did not comment on his wife's Affairs, and Gala, in turn, said: "Salvador does not care, each of us has his own life." Whatever it was, no one witnessed major quarrels between lovers. So they and lived soul in soul, until in 1982 from numerous diseases Gala not died. "The day of death will be the happiest day of my life," she said, consumed by senile infirmity.
Gala bequeathed to bury himself in the castle of Pubol, which gave her El Salvador. She died in a hospital 80 kilometers from the castle. Spanish law, enacted during the plague, prohibited the transport of dead bodies, but Dali went against the law. He wrapped his wife's body in a white sheet, put it in the back seat of the Cadillac, and the body was delivered to the Pubol, where everything was ready for the ceremony. Dali was not present at the funeral.
After the death of Gala, the artist lived for another seven years.