A leading figure of the Surrealist movement, Salvador Dalí left a cultural imprint that is instantly recognisable—whether one thinks of his melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory, striking self-portraits, or his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock or Elsa Schiaparelli.
Marking 120 years since Dalí’s birth last year, The Independent’s Alastair Smart wrote: “If the world was a stage, Dalí wanted to be chief protagonist.”
