This is ARC digital copy from NetGalley and White Lion Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

Salvador Dalí at Home is very detailed overview of the artist, starting with his family’s circumstances before his birth right up to his death in 1989. There’s also numerous pictures of the artist and his works peppered throughout the book. I’m sure in a large hardback format they will look absolutely spectacular, unfortunately I was reading this through the kindle app on my phone so they weren’t nearly as impressive to look at.

The text is obviously very well researched and incredibly informative. De Burca has sourced numerous works and biographies and refers to them throughout. What I also quite liked about this book was how De Burca let the facts speak for themselves and kept any speculation about the artist’s motivations or feelings to an absolute minimum.

Overall, I really enjoyed this biography, particularly De Burca’s description of his childhood years which clearly helped shape the man he became. I feel this book was aimed at someone like me who quite liked what they’d seen of his work, but knew next to nothing of the artist himself. Does feel slightly unfortunate that I came away with an incredibly deep dislike of the Dali himself, and am completely aligned with George Orwell’s opinion of him.

Although, perhaps others maybe more sympathetic.