Dali, visible again, plans an artwork 22 miles long

October 21, 1980

Salvador Dali, the Catalan surrealist, has emerged from six months of seclusion, promising to create the world's largest work f art. The flamboyant 76-year-old artists said he was preparing to work on a 22-mile-long project in Romania with the help of a team of American scientists. Dali said he recently completed two new paintings and a series of pencil sketches. He displayed one of the paintings, which measured more than 1 square yard, and said he had sent the other to the museum devoted to his work at Figueras, Spain.