--- title: Salvador Dalí Photos: 10 Surreal Portraits of the Artist description: The surrealist artist Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904 canonical: https://time.com/4318151/salvador-dali/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-11T12:30:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:29.795Z article:section: History og:title: Salvador Dalí Photos: 10 Surreal Portraits of the Artist og:description: The surrealist artist was born on May 11, 1904 og:url: https://time.com/4318151/salvador-dali/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff31333517103fb4/698891e7e20a871cb7a90b49/160504-salvador-dali-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2501 og:image:height: 1407 og:image:alt: Art Attack og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Salvador Dalí Photos: 10 Surreal Portraits of the Artist twitter:description: The surrealist artist was born on May 11, 1904 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff31333517103fb4/698891e7e20a871cb7a90b49/160504-salvador-dali-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See 10 of the Most Surreal Portraits of Salvador Dali > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) May 11, 2016 12:30 PM UTC  circa 1950: Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) shows off his famous moustache. (Photo by Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images) circa 1950: Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) shows off his famous moustache. (Photo by Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images)Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography—Getty Images) by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) May 11, 2016 12:30 PM UTC Salvador Dalí’s[ first appearance in the pages of TIME](http://time.com/vault/issue/1934-11-26/page/52/) came in 1934, with the disclaimer that “pale young people who drink sherry at little tables and decide the latest vogues in art were all finished with surrealism years ago.” The word had been coined a decade earlier, and the movement with which Dalí was most associated was seen by some as passé. And yet here came a Spanish artist, by way of Paris, arriving in New York City “with a load of minutely painted canvases to bewilder to eye of logic.” It was immediately clear, the magazine explained, that Dalí was there to make a mark: --- > “” --- **MORE**: [The 17 Most Influential Mustaches of All Time](http://time.com/3555372/movember-mustache-month-testicular-cancer/)  Salvador Dali on the cover of TIME magazine, 1934. TIME Magazine By the time the artist was [featured on the magazine’s cover in 1936](http://time.com/vault/issue/1936-12-14/page/1/), he had clearly proved his doubters wrong. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art was undertaking a major exhibition of surrealist art, including his own, and it was widely acknowledged “surrealism would never have attracted its present attention in the U. S. were it not for a handsome 32-year-old Catalan with a soft voice and a clipped cinemactor’s mustache, Salvador Dalí.” One early [definition](http://time.com/vault/issue/1934-04-09/page/48/) of Dalí’s brand of surrealism, as per TIME, was that it used “distortions of familiar objects.” In honor of the anniversary of Dalí’s May 11, 1904, birth, here are 10 of the most fittingly surreal portraits of the artist that we could find.  circa 1950: Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) shows off his famous moustache. (Photo by Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images) Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography—Getty Images)  Salvador Dali wearing an animal skull as a hat. 1950. Hulton Archive—Getty Images  Salvador Dali in London with one of his paintings entitled 'The Madonna of Port Lligat', December 1951. George Konig—Keystone Features/Getty Images  Salvador Dali with his wife Gala at the garden of his home in Cadaques on the Spanish Costa Brava. 1955. Charles Hewitt—Getty Images  Salvador Dali viewing the camera through a magnifying glass at his home in Cadaques on the Spanish Costa Brava. 1955. Charles Hewitt—Getty Images  Salvador Dali in a multiple exposure pose at his home in Cadaques on the Spanish Costa Brava. 1955. Charles Hewitt—Getty Images  Salvador Dali clutches an ornate clock at his home in Cadaques on the Costa Brava, Spain, Jan. 8, 1955. Charles Hewitt—Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Salvador Dali, wearing a shantung blazer and a silk tie, holdind a walking-stick, with a small toy gondola as a moustache, Venice 1961. Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche—Getty Images  Salvador Dali in Barcelona, Spain on May 24, 1966. Jack Mitchell—Getty Images  Salvador Dali wearing a helmet while presenting his first cylindrical chrono-hologram during a press conference in his Spanish apartment, on May 21, 1973. 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