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Painting
Dalí held his first exhibition at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona in 1925, before making his first trip to Paris and turning towards Surrealism. One of the most outstanding paintings in the exhibition, considered one of the best from his early period, is this portrait of his father. Dalí concentrated on the severe expression of the face and, especially in the piercing eyes, on the forceful character of his father, a notary in Figueres, with whom he had a difficult relationship. The technical mastery the young painter had achieved at that time can be seen in the cleanly drawn outlines, the treatment of light and shade and the expressive power of the sombre tones.
Drawing
In this work, one of the most representative from Salvador Dalí's youth, the artist puts to one side his worry about composition and colour and begins a stage which could be considered to be one of the most balanced periods in his artistic production, even though, as he himself would explain, it was a time that he lived in an exalted and frenetic way.In this drawing, the father, represented in three quarters seated in profile and looking towards the right, reminds us of the same figure of the portrait in oil that Dalí would paint some months later, which is also conserved in the museum. It reaches a cleansing of the line, which is made evident in the details of the faces, that are worked on in a highly delicate way, a particular way of drawing that later on, and from then on always, which would characterise his surrealist works.
