Dali's work is permeated by events that shaped his life even before his birth in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. His name, Salvador, had first been given to a brother who died a few years earlier at a young age. Perhaps because of that death, his parents lavished upon him an excessive love that fostered his egocentric and flamboyant personality. Furthermore, he saw himself as the phantom of his dead brother, early on becoming familiar with the obsessive idea of death, one of the themes that inspired his work.
Young Dali started to paint at the age of ten, when he became aquatinted with the work of a friend of his family, Ramon Pichot, an artist influenced by French Impressionism and Post-I
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