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sacred monster; Model, keeper, co-conspirator, for 50 years Gala Dali was the ferocious wife of the celebrated Surrealist Salvador Dali. On the occasion of a retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jane Kramer takes a look at the master's muse.(Biography)

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Byline: Jane Kramer

Gala was not her given name. It may have been a childhood nickname; she sometimes said so. Or it could be that the poet Paul luard, who fell in love with her at a sanatorium near Davos, when they were seventeen, chose it for her-it was a bright, festive, first-love sort of name, good in any language-the way he had chosen luard for himself, finding it more "poetic" than his own name, Grindel; she sometimes said that, too. She was born Elena Dmitrievna Deluvina Diakonoff, or maybe not-depending on which biographers you read, and who they believed her father was, and, more to the point, who she had wanted people to believe he was. You will find ...

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