Biggest Dalí exhibition in Latin America opens in São Paulo

Arranged by the Salvador Dalí-Gala Foundation, the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid, and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, the display will include 164 works of art and 56 documents.

Starting from Dalí's work in the 1920s through to his final canvases, the exhibition - in the Brazilian city of São Paulo - covers most of the painter's career and shows the evolution in his technique and style over the decades.

Some of Dalí's best-known paintings on show in the largest metropolis in Latin America include Es Llaner, Cubist Self-Portrait, Portrait of My Sister, Atomic and Uranic Melancholic Idyll, Gala's Foot, and Topological Contorsion of the Female Form.

Works and documents have been lent to the so-called 'New York of the Tropics' by the three galleries organising the exhibition, which will be open until New Year's Eve.

Despite being the biggest Dalí display ever to be held in South and Central America combined, it will not take place at either of São Paulo's largest and most globally-renowned art galleries, the MASP (São Paulo Art Museum) or the MAM (Modern Art Museum).

Instead, the 220 pieces will be on display in the Tomie Ohtake Institute in the suburb of Vila Madalena, an out-of-town location halfway between São Paulo University and the internationally-famous Ibirapuera Park - but the exhibition will take over practically the whole of the gallery for the next two-and-a-half months, meaning the southern Brazilian city will more or less have its own Dalí museum until the start of 2015.