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1943, SALVADOR DALÍ 39 YEARS OLD
On April 14, 1943, the Knoedler Gallery in New York opened Dalí’s new solo exhibition, which included numerous portraits of figures from the American high society. In the autumn of that same year, Dalí took refuge in New Hampshire, in the mansion of another of his patrons, the Marquis de Cuevas. Encouraged by the sales of his autobiography, the painter had set out to write a novel that would be set in the turbulent Europe of the 1930s and entitled “Hidden Faces”, part of the argument revolved around “cledalism”, a new philosophical concept invented by Dalí. This term, key to understanding the painter’s relationship with Gala, was used by the artist to refer to intense love without physical contact. For Dalí, the most refined eroticism consisted of taking the loved one to the limit of their desires, preventing them from being fulfilled.
