Salvador Dalí’s mother was named Felipa Domènech Ferrés.
She was born in 1874 and married Salvador Dalí i Cusí, a notary in Figueres. The family lived in Catalonia, where Dalí spent much of his childhood and began drawing at an early age.
Felipa died in 1921, when Dalí was 16. Her death deeply affected him, and he later wrote about the importance of his mother in his early life. This fact is sometimes confused with Gala’s birth name, Elena, or with Dalí’s sister Ana María.
Dalí’s family background was strongly connected to Figueres and the surrounding Empordà region, which later appeared repeatedly in his paintings and writings.