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Surrealist artist Salvador Dali pulling Christine Argillet's hair.
PHOTO: THE ARGILLET COLLECTION
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SINGAPORE – A simple shirt, shorts and slippers – this could be the outfit of any Singaporean man, but it is also what Ms Christine Argillet describes as the unexpected uniform of one of the greatest artists in world history: the larger-than-life surrealist Salvador Dali.
Once photographed walking his pet giant anteater in Paris, the eccentric Dali was really an “extremely simple, kind and elegant” man, according to Ms Argillet, who spent many youthful summers with the artist at his home in Figueres in north-eastern Spain in the 1960s.
