A VISIBLE WOMAN

Gala Dalí was a life filled with glamour, drama, passionate and unconventional love, sweeping social unrest, ambition, money, art, defiance and daring. Overshadowed in contemporary analysis by her well-known husbands - Surrealist poet Paul Eluard and revered painter Salvador Dalí - Gala played a critical role in the Surrealist movement and in the art and writing of some of the most influential cultural figures of the mid-last century, as well as substantially extending the reach of art toward commerce and celebrity in ways that are still being felt today. Her circle extended to royalty, rock royalty, Warhol superstars, transgender models and Broadway performers, and she and Salvador were for many years the most famous couple in the art world. 

A VISIBLE WOMAN: The Life of Gala Dalí by Michèle Gerber Klein unfolds across pre-revolutionary Russia, two World Wars, the rise of Surrealism and the “lost generation” in Paris, wartime and postwar America, and periods of cultural innovation on both sides of the Atlantic. Drawing from untranslated documents and previously unseen material offered to her for this book, as well as from interviews with people who knew Gala, Michèle sets out to present a rounded portrait that connects the dots with many new revelations.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Michèle Gerber Klein is a French-American author and journalist whose previous biography, Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man, (Rizzoli Ex Libris) was noted for its "formidable fashion knowledge" by The New York Times, described as a "page turner" by Bookforum, and named a Financial Times Best Book of 2018.