Dali record a Turkish delight

ISTANBUL: The largest Salvador Dali exhibition outside Spain has just opened with 269 works by the Catalan surrealist plus photos, movies and manuscripts shedding light on his life and artistic journey.

The 33 paintings, 113 drawings, 111 engravings and 12 lithographs will be on display until January 20 at a private museum housed in a sprawling Ottoman riverside mansion.

The collection retraces Dali's artistic journey right back to his first canvasses depicting the Catalan countryside of Figueras, where he was born in 1904 and died in 1989.