Born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, Salvador Dalí’s eccentric nature and talent for self-promotion made him the most famous representative of the surrealist movement and one of the most widely recognised artists in the world. Identified as an artistic prodigy from a tender age, Dalí attended the drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres, Spain in 1916. In 1922, he enrolled in the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid and received recognition during his first solo show held in Barcelona in 1925. Dalí became internationally known after the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928 and grew to immense notoriety and fame. Today, his sculptures and paintings are exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world and part of many coveted private and public collections.