Dalí opens his Teatro Museo Gala Dalí in Figueras. For it, he produces the drypoint series After 50 Years of Surrealism. Appearance of his illustrations for Les Amours Jaunes by Tristan Corbière (Illustration The Museum of Genius and Fantasy, WVZ 676).
Dalí produces Ten Recipes for Immortality, a case design with etchings and three-dimensional objects. Additionally appearance of Dalí’s lithographs for Rabelais’ The Comical Dreams of Pantagruel.
Opening of the Salvador Dalí Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, with the collection of E. and A. Reynolds Morse, relocated in 1982 to Saint Petersburg, Florida. Dalí designs the limited first edition of the fashion magazine Scarab for the Scabal fashion house and designs for it the mannequinbased sculpture Mannequin Zootropique. Appearance of the drypoint etching series New Mythological Suite as a Hommage to Dürer. Dalí designs the Christmas edition of the French magazine Vogue.
As a great admirer of Richard Wagner and a master of the dry point process, Dalí produces a comprehensive series of 21 drypoint etchings for Tristan and Iseult.
Dalí’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland appear, combining woodcut, etching and lithographic techniques.With the Walpurgisnight etchings, Dalí creates his illustration to Goethe’s Faust. His popularity leads him for example to design television advertising for the firm, Chocolat Lanvin. French railways S.N.C.F. commission him to design a series of posters for the regions of France, published as lithographs.
Dalí buys the Castle of Púbol for Gala, close to Figueras. However, he has to announce his arrival and ask for permission
before he may visit her there (Illustration Gala’s Castle, WVZ 675).
Dalí publishes Diary of a Genius. Queen Isabella of Spain awards him the Grand Cross, the highest Spanish honour.
Dalí publishes Le Mythe tragique de l’Angélus de Millet. Dalí begins to attribute a decisive role in the constitution of the universe to the railway station at Perpignan. In addition, scientific topics are integrated into Dalí’s works, such as the double helix structure of the DNA.
Dalí’s most comprehensive work of illustration by far, 100 xylographs illustrating Dante’s The Divine Comedy originally commissioned by the Italian government for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s birth in 1965, is published by Joseph Forêt.
For the exclusive bookclub Nouveau Cercle Parisien du Livre Dalí makes 20 colour wood engravings to illustrate Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s Le Tricorne. He is granted an audience with Pope John XXIII and collaborates with other artists on the most expensive book project at that time, the Apocalypse of Saint John. For his three motifs for this book, Dalí for example explodes a bomb filled with nails on copper plates and uses a steam roller to run over a sewing machine laid between copper plates.