Autograph manuscript signed.

4to. 4 pp. In French. On addressed stationery. - With: 2 autograph letters signed by Dali's wife Gala Eluard, one of which with 3 autograph lines by Dali, and 1 autograph postcard signed by Gala. Extensive draft of a letter or article on Dali's masterpiece "Madonna of Port Lligat" (1950), an immense painting about to be displayed at its début exhibition at the Carstairs Gallery in New York, a work he claims to bring the surrealist experience of his own life in line with classical painting: "Ma madona que enfin fini, va être exposé pour la première fois au gran public, et la reponse à ma promesse que je lui havait fait aux dernières pages de ma vie secrete 'incorpore l'experience surrealiste de ma vie à la grande tradition clasique de la peinture'". - Further, the artist explains "Dalinian symbols" in his paintings, describing bread and eggs representing the Holy Communion and Resurrection, elements which, though once considered arbitrary by the public, had recently been discovered to be in fact "mystical"; he goes on to mention praise by a friend and enthusiast of abstract art lavished on his "Madonna" before invoking a fond memory of Sigmund Freud, who called him a "fanatic": "Froid [i. e. Freud] fut le premier en decouvrir en moi un etat d'esprit mhisthique qu'on exclame [.] à mon egard, quel prototipe d'Espanol, quel Fanatique!". - Includes 2 autograph letters signed by Gala Eluard (who was to become Dali's wife), one expressing her thanks for holiday pictures, the other with three autograph lines by Dali inviting the addressee, a friend of his and Gala's, to their place ("Nous serons enchantés si vous venez nous voir"), and one autograph postcard signed from Gala to G. Keller in Paris. - Some erasures and corrections. In excellent condition.