Watched by his wife Gala, Salvador Dalí works on his experiments with the sea urchin holding a swan feather and moving backwards and forewards thus marking the blackened paper. These experiments he is carrying out at his studio in his Spanish home at Portlligat, Cadaqués, on the Costa Brava 1957.
Watched by his wife Gala, Salvador Dalí conducts an experiment at his studio in Portlligat, Spain, in 1957. Wearing a tall, soft hat and a single earring, the artist uses a sea urchin and a swan feather to mark a sheet of blackened, wet paper. Gala stands behind him, intently examining a large, translucent plate. The dramatically lit table holds an assortment of intriguing objects—glasses of liquid, spiky sea urchin shells, and a brightly lit, dandelion-like puffball—casting deep shadows across the scene of focused artistic creation.
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