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Salvador Dalí retrospective opens at Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

MOSCOW.- The exhibition entitled Salvador Dalí: a retrospective opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts next 2 September, coinciding with the Dual Year Spain-Russia. It is the mayor retrospective ever celebrated in this country with original works. It will be opened from 3 September until 13 November 2011. The opening events were presided over by the Russian Minister of Culture, Aleksandr Avdeev, the Spanish Ambassador, Mr. Luis Felipe Fernández de la Peña, as well as Irina Antonova, director of the Pushkin Museum, and Joan M. Sevillano, Managing Director of the Dalí Foundation. The show includes works from the very early years (20s) down to Dalí’s last canvases. It offers the visitor an opportunity to see his evolution, not only technical but also his influences, iconography, ideological sources, symbolism, of his original universe. The loans come exclusively from the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí. The exhibit benefits from the sponsorship of the Russian cultural fou