Salvador Dalí, Daddy Longlegs of the Evening--Hope! (1940); Salvador Dalí Museum

ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- March 7, 2007 marks the 25th anniversary of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. To trace the roots of the Salvador Dalí Museum, you have to start in, of all places, Cleveland. In 1942, a year after their marriage, a young Ohio couple bought themselves a belated wedding present—a painting with images of limp figures, a spider and ants on a barren landscape representing the exile caused by World War II. Not the most obvious wedding present, but to the couple it was the first piece of what would become one of the most acclaimed collections of a single modern artist in the world and would lead to a 45-year friendship with the artist. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19495