Salvador Dali Exhibition Slated for UB's Anderson Gallery, June-August , ArtDaily.org

The exhibition features 15 original drawings, two lithographs, a poster and a silver sculpture from the Edmund Klein Collection.
BUFFALO, NY.- “Salvador Dali,” an exhibition of works by the Spanish surrealist that coincides with the 20th anniversary of his death, will be presented June 27-August 27 by the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery. It will feature 15 original drawings, two lithographs, a poster and a silver sculpture from the Edmund Klein Collection; two paintings from the University at Buffalo Collection, and a sculpture and several drypoint etchings from the collection of Niagara University’s Castellani Art Museum. The exhibition will take place in the second floor gallery of the Anderson, 1 Martha Jackson Place (off Englewood Avenue between Main Street and Kenmore Avenue). It will be free of charge and open to the public. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday. 1-5 p.m. Further information and directions can be obtained from the gallery at (716) 829-3754. The 15 sketches and the silver sculpture in the Klein Collection belong to the family of the late Edmund Klein, M.D., a world-renowned skin cancer researcher who was a research professor in UB’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and served as chief of dermatology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. For nearly a decade, beginning in 1972, the year he won the coveted Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for his outstanding contributions to the treatment of skin cancer, Klein treated Dali for skin cancer in New York City, France and on Spain’s Costa Brava. Paul Chimera, a spokesperson for the Klein family and a Dali aficionado, says that over the years, the doctor and the artist became close friends and that Dali paid Klein unconventionally for his medical treatment by executing, personalizing and dedicating to Klein, the original drawings to be shown in the UB exhibit. ...
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