Salvador Dali dead at 84 // Eccentric, controversial artist embodied surrealism

Chicago Sun-Times | January 24, 1989 | Copyright

FIGUERAS, Spain Salvador Dali, the surrealist painter, self-promoter and genuine eccentric who once said his soul would "live on and on, and I will keep creating and creating," died Monday in his beloved hometown on the Costa Brava of a heart ailment complicated by pneumonia. He was 84.

The wild-eyed Mr. Dali, an unforgettable figure with slicked-down hair, waxed mustache and gold-headed cane, had been in declining health for half a dozen years. He went out as he had lived since the 1982 death of his cherished wife, Gala - in near-seclusion.

"He went out like a candle, slowly burning ...

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