Dali as Chemist

Containing several hundred pencil drawings, a Spanish chemistry textbook used by Salvador Dali during his student days at the San Fernando Academy of Art in Madrid was sold for $12,000 (£6280) in a Sotheby’s New York sale of December 3.

That Dali was utterly bored by the subject is evident and in 1924 he was suspended for a year for in…

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