At the age of six, Salvador Dal? (1904–1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. “Since then,” he later said, “my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dal?, I have no greater wish.” Throughout his life, Dal? was out to become Dal?: that is, one of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century. This weighty volume is the most complete study of Dal?’s painted works ever published. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret located painted works by the master that had been inaccessible for years—so many, in fact, that almost half the featured illustrations appear in public for the first time in this book