Best known for his images of melting watches in a dream world of sunlit landscapes, Dalí produced over 1,500 paintings and a total of more than 4,000 works of art, including sculptures, drawings, engravings, holograms, photographs and jewellery. Renowned for his surreal acts and flamboyant self-publicity, he wrote, ‘At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.’ Dalí’s influences range from cubism and Dada to the meticulous detail of nineteenth-century genre painting and earlier Old Masters.