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Gallery to Exhibit Unseen Dalí Drawings

Published: June 22, 2009
BUFFALO, N.Y.—When a dermatologist was treating Salvador Dalí for nearly 10 years, beginning in 1972, he received as payment not the usual doctor’s fee but 15 personalized drawings, which the public has never seen. Now the works are going on exhibit for the first time.

The University at Buffalo's Anderson Gallery plans to display the drawings, which the Spanish surrealist gave to Edmund Klein, for two months this summer. They were made on pages from sketchpads, art books, and a paper Klein had written. Some depict angels and bear dedications to the doctor. Klein, who died in 1999, stored the drawings in a bank vault, and his widow disclosed their existence last summer, saying she wants to sell them.

Read more at the Associated Press.

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