A 'celebrated' Salvador Dalí painting will go on display for the first time ever in the North East between July and December this year.
Dalí's Christ of St John on the Cross will be shown at Bishop Auckland's Spanish Gallery from July 9 - December 4 alongside El Greco's Christ on the Cross, uniting two Spanish masterpieces inside the UK's first gallery dedicated to the art of the Spanish Golden Age. One of the most reproduced paintings of the 20th century, Dalí's masterpiece has been loaned from Glasgow Life Museums, after the city acquired the artwork in 1952.
The Spanish Gallery's first ever temporary exhibition aims to celebrate two of art's most idiosyncratic painters and compare their reinvention of the subject of Christ on the Cross. The latter's painting went on public display for the first time after more than two centuries in a private collection when the Spanish Gallery opened last year.
