The Dali 17

...Continued from yesterday:
       Though our plans for Monday had originally included a visit to the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium,

...while strolling along the bay on Sunday we happened  upon the Dali 17 Museum, which is a permanent exhibit of hundreds of works of Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali.

    Now, I'm as fascinated and charmed as anyone by aquatic creatures and habitats, but Salvador Dali is my favorite artist, even though I've seen only a few of his actual paintings, having seen mostly photos of his works in art books. 

     So  rather than going to the aquarium I really wanted to go to the Dali museum. Which we did.
    As the museum didn't open until 10 am we started out Monday morning with another walk around downtown Monterey,

​...where we discovered a doughnut shop displaying the most wonderful-looking wares, which of course we had to sample.

    After our doughnut break it was almost time  for the museum to open so we headed down to the bay area to the Dali 17.

    We learned that the museum was named the Dali 17 in commemoration of the years during the 1940's when Salvador Dali, having fled Spain during World War II, lived in Monterey at the Del Monte Hotel on 17-Mile Drive, the scenic highway along the Pacific Ocean.

    We did not know that.

     Interestingly, the museum was filled not with  Dali's more known works, with the exception of a couple of "Persistence of Memory" doubles,

...but rather with etchings, lithographs, mixed media pieces,

...and a few sculptures.

     It was not the Dali I was used to, but wonderful all the same. At one spot in the museum there was a sofa shaped like a pair of lips across which the light fell to create lines,

...that reminded me of the eyelashy-looking lines Dali often put on his paintings.

    An awesome coincidence, thought I.

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