Salvador and Gala | The Cultural Me

Born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, “Gala” Dalí met her husband Salvador Dalí in 1929 during a family trip to Cadaques, Spain. Gala quickly became enamoured with Dalí and abandoned her 11-year-old daughter, Cecile, to be with him. Cecile said of her mother, “After she met Dalí…, she was not interested in me anymore. She was never very warm, even before. She was very mysterious, very secretive.” 1 Gala and Dalí travelled the world together. Over time, she became his manager and helped him with his business ventures. Their relationship was cherished by Dalí and she was the source of much inspiration, featuring in many of his works, such as Portrait of Galarina (1945). They remained together until Gala’s death in 1982. Before her death, Dalí asked for two tombs to be built side by side in the Castle of Pubol, where they spent many summers, so they could be buried together. In his autobiography Diary of a Genius, Dalí says, “I love her more than my mother, more than my father more than Picasso and even more than money.” 2

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