“Throughout most of his high-profile life, it seemed that Salvador Dalí had come from the moon, by way of the Walt Disney studios and some bar in a swank Paris hotel: art’s original Space Oddity, the super salesman of Surrealism… But you only have to travel the dusty back roads well inland from the tourist havens clogging Spain’s Costa Brava area north of Barcelona to come across stark evidence of the roots of so much of his imagery.” Surrealism seems to be hot again in the eyes of both critics and collectors, and a reexamination of Dali’s influences and impact is a natural offshoot of the revival.