The one between Salvador Dali and Amanda Lear is an unconventional love story, as often happens in the art world. When they met, she was in her early twenties, he was sixty-one and a wife, his beloved Gala older than him, who would share the relationship with the two lovers. Dali called Amanda Lear “my angel”. The story between the two lasts sixteen years, the result of an incredible mental and spiritual affinity. The meeting
Amanda Lear and Salvador Dali met in 1965 in the Parisian restaurant Le Castel. At the time, the model was accompanied by her boyfriend Tara Browne. Dali, struck by Amanda’s uniqueness, invited the couple for lunch the next day. Thus was born an incredible harmony that will then turn into love. Lear hit Dali thanks to her androgynous and not very feminine physique, unusual compared to the beauty model in vogue at the time. The surrealist absolutely wanted her as a model, and so Amanda became her muse. An amazing spiritual affinity is created between them. In the numerous interviews given after the end of their relationship Amanda reveals how close their relationship was. An absolutely unconventional menage but a sort of “spiritual marriage”, as Amanda herself defined it. The menage a trois
Salvador Dali, “L’enfant terrible” of art, was still married, but Amanda Lear accompanied him and his wife for about sixteen years, spending every summer with them. His wife, Gala, was Amanda’s best friend. She “she was much older than Dali, so she no longer cared about going out with him if she’d been carrying him around for 50 years. And ours was a menage a trois. Salvador Dali was spiritually in love with his wife Gala, but he loved me too. He said he was crazy about my skeleton because I was very thin, ”Lear later said. Amanda joins the couple naturally. Between her and Dali there were forty years of difference, but that does not stop the passion and artistic obsession between the two. “Sex in our threesome relationship had nothing to do with it, ours was a relationship of absolute harmony, spiritual love and art”.The 5 most famous paintings by Salvador Dali
“The jealousy of other painters has always been the thermometer of my success”. A success, that of the immense Salvador Dali, who was actually overwhelming Amanda Lear muse of Salvador Dali
Amanda Lear has posed for some works by Salvator Dali, such as Venus to the Furs and Vogue, has participated in many of his film projects. In addition, she very often stood by her side during press conferences and meetings with the media, events that often turned into real shows with Amanda as the central figure. Dali was in love with her with her body, her almost masculine physique and her deep voice so much that he called her “Mi angel”, my angel. “He said he was crazy about my skeleton, because I was very thin,” says Amanda.
A relationship of loving and artistic madness that is still able to surprise today.
