I once saw the video of old Dali rushed to the hospital after his supposedly suicide attempt, It made quite an impression on me and I thought its one of the most heart wrenching imagery I had seen from the history of art. This article though, taking it to the next level by giving an in-depth look on his personal life, focusing on Gala and on how shes both his ecstasy and agony. Gala gave him excessive doses of Valium and other sedatives, which made him lethargic. She would then dose him with “unknown quantities of one or more types of amphetamine,” thereby causing him “irreversible neural damage.” “Might it be possible,” Gibson asks the reader, “that Gala, in plying Dali with a mixture of pills from her private medicine chest, was…attempting to poison him? It is a possibility that cannot be entirely ruled out.” It was clear, in any case, that Gala’s treatment had reduced the artist to a bag of quivering bones. When the King and Queen of Spain visited him in 1981, he looked very battered: Gala was rumored to have made a dent in his skull with her shoe.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:20:50 +0000
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