Salvador Dalí

Di Donna Galleries is proud to exhibit Salvador Dalí's Les Vins de Gala (The Wines of Gala), a collection of thirty-five works—spanning collage, drawing and painting atop photographic prints—that are created by Dalí for reproduction in his celebrated publication, Les Vins de Gala between 1976 and 1977.

Les Vins de Gala is a lavish and surrealistic tribute to the transformative powers of wine, conceived as the hedonistic sequel to Salvador Dalí's earlier gastronomic fantasia Les Dîners de Gala (1973). Published in October 1977 by the Parisian house Draeger as Les Vins de Gala du Divin, the book reimagines the traditional wine guide as a dreamlike, emotional journey rather than a prosaic compilation of varietals. Les Vins de Gala celebrates intoxication as both alchemy and art—an ecstatic communion between the senses, the subconscious, and the divine.