Dali, now 81
NZPA-AP Barcelona The surrealist painter Salvador Dali, celebrating his eighty-first birthday on May 11, said he desired only “silence, tranquility and the company of my friends, which are my books.” Dali, who lives in seclusion in his Galatea Tower mansion in his hometown of Figueras, north of Bar-
celona is in general good health although burns he suffered in a fire last year substantially weakened him. Billboards round Madrid are displaying various Dali works in honour of Gala. Dali told the agency that although his friend, Antonio Pixtot, a well-known Catalonian painter, visited him daily, he wished to remain alone*
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Press, 16 May 1985, Page 24
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