The Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation presented the first part of the catalogue raisonn\u00e9 of the artist\u2019s work, one of the Foundation\u2019s most significant contributions to the centennial of Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s birth. The presentation was given at the Catalan National Art Museum by the Director, Eduard Carbonell, and on behalf of the Foundation by the Chairman, Ramon Boixad\u00f3s, as well as Montse Aguer, Dal\u00ed Year commissioner and Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies (CED), and F\u00e8lix Fan\u00e9s, advisor to the CED and professor of History of Art at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).<\/p>\n
The catalogue raisonn\u00e9 is a work of painstaking and thorough research carried out by the Centre for Dalinian Studies. It presents Dal\u00ed\u2019s pictorial oeuvre so as to be consultable according to three criteria: chronological order, alphabetical order and by collections. The first part of this research work, which includes 252 pieces, ranges from the first oil and tempera works through to the year 1930. Work continues in order to publish the rest of the painter\u2019s work, which has been divided into the following periods: a second period covering to 1939, a third to 1951, a fourth to 1964 and a fifth and last period to 1983. The main feature of this contribution is that it can be consulted free of charge via Internet using the Foundation\u2019s website https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org<\/a> The fact that it is on digital medium means that any further data that may emerge following publication of the work can later be added to the site.<\/p>\n Works from 93 different collections have been catalogued (30 museums and 63 private individuals)<\/strong><\/p>\n \nDuring its presentation, F\u00e8lix Fan\u00e9s mentioned the fact that \u201cDal\u00ed was one of the very few artists who still did not have a thorough catalogue of his work. The main reason was because of the dispersion of his works, which are mainly concentrated in private hands. Although a good collaboration from institutions and private individuals has been found, there are still some gaps, though much less than at the beginning of the project\u201d Fan\u00e9s explained. The catalogue includes works from 30 different collections, among which the Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed stands out for it has 65 of the 252 works listed in the catalogue. The Salvador Dal\u00ed Museum (St. Petersburg, Florida) has 45 and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda (Madrid) 26. Apart from the contributions from other institutions like the Mus\u00e9e National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) or The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), there are a further 63 works belonging to private collectors.<\/p>\n According to the Centre for Dalinian Studies researchers, the object of the catalogue was not to undertake an aesthetic assessment of the painter\u2019s oeuvre but rather a task of attribution, establishing once and for all the total extent of Dal\u00ed\u2019s pictorial production. The research includes an examination of the known works, contrasting visual examination with photographic records. Montse Aguer stated \u201cworks of which we did not know their location were also included in the catalogue, because we were absolutely sure of their existence since they are so well documented\u201d.<\/p>\n Project direction <\/strong><\/p>\n The work was carried out by the technical teams of the Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation under the direction of Montse Aguer, Dal\u00ed Year commissioner and Director of the CED, with the assistance of Carme Ruiz (coordinator of the CED) and Rosa Aguer (Registrar). This team had advisory support from Antoni Pitxot, Director of the Dal\u00ed Theatre-Museum, Georgina Berini, the Foundation\u2019s conservator-restorer, and F\u00e8lix Fan\u00e9s, professor of History of Art at the UAB and advisor to the CED. As regards the technical part, the company Multistudio worked on the initial approach to the catalogue raisonn\u00e9, with the assistance of the programmers Interkonet Publishers, the computing supplier and consultant Estudis i Projectes Inform\u00e0tics and the Bis Dixit design studio. Multistudio had previously designed the Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation website, which was launched in December 1999; this same firm maintains the site and was also in charge of designing the Dal\u00ed Year internet portal www.dali2004.info, made available on 6 October 2003 to coincide with the official inauguration of the centennial at the Dal\u00ed Theatre-Museum in Figueres. Interkonet Publishers carried out the database programming work, using PHP release 4.2.1 as the programming language due to its power and dynamic qualities, and Microsoft SQL Server as database due to its reliability and ease of management. A content-administration tool fed directly from the Dal\u00ed Foundation\u2019s local database was also created, thereby allowing any changes or new additions to be immediately made available on-line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation presented the first part of the catalogue raisonn\u00e9 of the artist\u2019s work, one of the Foundation\u2019s most significant contributions to the centennial of Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s birth. 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