Salvador Rafel Anicet Dalí i Cusi

Salvador Rafael Aniceto Dali was born on 25 October 1872 and was baptised on 3 November 1872 at La Natividad de Nuestra Señora church in Cadaqués, Gerona, Spain.

He was the son of Galo Dali and Teresa Cusi, and the grandson, on his father's side, of Salvador Dali and Francisca Viñas, and on his mother's side, of Jacinto Cusi and Mariana Marco.

He was a middle-class lawyer and notary whose strict disciplinary approach was tempered by his wife, Felipa Domenech Ferrés, who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors. When he was five, Dali was taken to his brother's grave and told by his parents that he was his brother's reincarnation, a concept which he came to believe. Of his brother, Dali said, "...[we] resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections." He "was probably a first version of myself but conceived too much in the absolute."

In 1917 he organized an exhibition of his son's charcoal drawings in their family home. He had his first public exhibition at the Municipal Theater in Figueres in 1919.

In February 1921 his wife died of breast cancer. After her death, he married his deceased wife's sister. Dali did not resent this marriage, because he had a great love and respect for his aunt.

His relationship with his son was close to rupture. Don Salvador Dali y Cusi strongly disapproved of his son's romance with Gala, and saw his connection to the Surrealists as a bad influence on his morals. The last straw was when Don Salvador read in a Barcelona newspaper that his son had recently exhibited in Paris a drawing of the "Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ", with a provocative inscription: "Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait."

Outraged, Don Salvador demanded that his son recant publicly. Dali refused, perhaps out of fear of expulsion from the Surrealist group, and was violently thrown out of his paternal home on December 28, 1929. His father told him that he would disinherit him, and that he should never set foot in Cadaquès again. The following summer, Dali and Gala would rent a small fisherman's cabin in a nearby bay at Port Lligat. He bought the place, and over the years enlarged it, gradually building his much beloved villa by the sea.

Don Salvador passed away in 1950.