European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Divine Dali a haunted by fear of dying by Sarah Nicholson United press International a Blank Garden Wall is now Salvador Ali s sole source of inspiration recently Friend my. He saw Crysti i to s lips Kwh last Al 83. The divine Dali spends hours on end staring out his bedroom window at the Wall but he no longer turns his surreal visions into Art. Beset by what doctors say Are imagined infirmities. Das has withdrawn to a lower Wing of the Dali museum in Figueres his native town near Spain s Norl Neasley Mediterranean coast and he has not ventured irom his bedroom in is months the Tower designed by Oali and renamed Galatea Tower alter his tale Wile gala is a typical Oalman extravaganza hundreds of plaster replicas of twee cornered bread Idle Dot the facade and the tool is turreted with 12 foot High plastic eggs but beyond the Chi Iancic. Where private Security guards land Aiea Day and night. Dali lives secluded spartan Quail is his bedroom Walls arc Bare and a simple metallic Ghl Able stands next to his single bed there is Lilly Hati us of e ecce Nanc Dali. Who began making , n stun 1x3 ,.ago a Rinn he appeared Al a new York Art exhibit wearing a Loal of bread As a hat to expound on the paranoiac critical method of his melting watches and ant infested Sand dunes he is Content just gazing Al the says Antoni Pill of a 53-year-old Painter who visits Dali nearly every evening. He has chosen to be an ascetic now. Ii is a spot intelligence to be Able to change one s ways Al his Dali whose paintings draw the highest prices Lor a living Orlins no longer flaunts his baroque love of Money thai paid to his Cadillac suites Al new York s St. Regis hotel Iran at Tanto cruises and the Upkeep of an elephant and an ocelot. His Only whim his aides say is to be awakened Al 11 each morning to 1920s tango Lunes his Mavorite in dim Light is played Over and Over As he is dressed and tilled to his armchair. A kind of cowardice has overcome the says Arturo Carmada Dali s chauffeur and Valet of 38 years whose main task no is to trim the artist s Irader Nark moustache and shoulder length locks he is aha id to Swallow to walk the ear of dying haunts him bul he does so 111 tie to keep Nim Selt alive a ceding lube hangs permanently rom Dali s nose because he says he cannot Swallow and his nurses old him liquids Irir Aurah it Rheo hour once a Day a ,-s, cow to 1,11 his Lerus and Bend his Knees because he refuses to move of his own Accord. There is no physical reason Why Dali cannot eat or walk to simply docs not want says his physician. Or Juan Garcia san Miguel. To has Lound a comfortable chair and has chosen to spend his last sitting in it " since moving to Iho lower in of Lobar 1984, Aller to was seriously burned in a lire at his 2lh-Cdntury Castle in the nearby Hamlet of Publ. Dali has shunned visitors his 27-year old Secretary. Maria Teresa Brugues. Solicitous by shows reporters and old friends around the silent lower residence but she invariably explains that Oali regrets that he is too tired to be seen in a re Conley published biography of Dali. American water Merylo Secrest described an interview two years ago with a pitiful and barely coherent Dali i realised by the Way he banged the Armol the chair As he tried to conce Liate. How very tired a was. The Elloul to Pul on one More performance was just too but Dali s entourage of attendants and around who clock nurses insists thai the Maestro is still the Lucid Genius thai he always claimed to be. Oali s mind is very Alert and when he wants to be understood he Speaks up clearly. He is Cranky but was he Ever known for being Simpatico Brugues asserted she says that Dali lakes a Lively interest in the news and has her read three newspapers Elohim each Day. But he does not say much to me. I think he looks Down on the rest of us. He reserves his comments Lor Pill of she said. Pill of this will kill you the Ellow Painter quoted Dali As saying to him after he Learned of the 21 year old West German Pilot who landed in Moscow s red Square in june. That entire monster of defense comes tumbling. Down when an outstanding person acts with decision it is enough to kid you with Pitol s links to the Painter go Back to his childhood and the close lies Between both his and Dali s family by All accounts Pilot is Dali s Only Friend and the Only person who addresses him in the familiar Patxot Rebuffi reports in the Spanish press that the ailing Dali has been kidnapped by his keepers As the typical morbid speculation that has always surrounded moving to the lower he says gave Dali a new lease on life of Fer he plunged into a dark depression following the deals of gala his Muse and wife of 47 years in june 1982. For two years he refused to open the shutters at he Publ Castle. One of his last paintings entitled two night stands and a bed violently Al lacking a re Lleces the tantrums and the anger thai nurses reported during that period now Dali according to pit of has Al least resumed his interest in the world and in his museum. The ancient Wall beyond his bedroom window is Tood enough to fire his imagination and. It he does not paint it is because he does not Leel the need to " explaining Why he did not want workmen to plaster the Wall Dali recently told Patxot you knew each Day i see new things in the shape of the stones Raphael the emperor Francis Joseph and lha lips of Grela Dali Latt i it a the Dali museum in August 1985 when he Well to see a sculpture he designed gala s Small fishing beat set atop a huge pile of varnished Fruck tires but of dials say he still keeps a hand in Lunning it the museum which detractors have dubbed the Temple of was opened in 1974 it now draws 370 000 visitors each year making it the most visited museum m Spain alter Trie Prado there is also an extensive Dali museum in St Petersburg. Fla this Spring Dali a plastic hat in the shape of a in Adio Hal will be sold As a souvenir alongside the Dali imm Bles and gala ashtrays we in the snap of a bread roll7 a to says that time will unravel the mysteries of his i Mboli " explained Munmum Board member Evans people will be bewildered Trio i Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday. August 16. 1987
