Dali with the Duke of Windsor

Vintage Silver Gelatin print, 1961, verso is the agency stamp, “Copywrite by Reporters Associes, Paris”. Handwritten beneath is “Lido al Parigi 1961”
Note: The Duke of Windsor (1894 - 1972), otherwise known as King Edward VIII - the English King who abdicated in order that he might marry Mrs Wallis Simpson. On their first journey to New York Dali and Galaa had their first dinner appointment with the Duke of Windsor and his wife Wallis Simpson and as a result of this they beacme friends. This photograph seems to have been taken at the Lido in Paris at a formal dinner and it depicts the Duke and Dali shaking hands with a photographer in the background.