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Dalí attended the Municipal Drawing School at Figueres in 1916 and also discovered modern painting on a summer vacation trip to Cadaqués with the family of [[Ramon Pichot]], a local artist who made regular trips to Paris.<ref name=Llongueras /> The next year, Dalí's father organized an exhibition of his charcoal drawings in their family home. He had his first public exhibition at the Municipal Theatre in Figueres in 1918,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dali.jp/en/collection/dali.php|title=Who was Salvador Dalí?｜Collection｜Morohashi Museum of Modern Art|website=dali.jp|access-date=15 December 2018|archive-date=15 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215223351/http://dali.jp/en/collection/dali.php|url-status=live}}</ref> a site he would return to decades later. In early 1921 the Pichot family introduced Dalí to [[Futurism]]. That same year, Dalí's uncle Anselm Domènech, who owned a bookshop in Barcelona, supplied him with books and magazines on [[Cubism]] and contemporary art.<ref>Gibson, Ian (1997), pp. 78–81</ref>
On 6 February 1921, Dalí's mother died of uterine cancer.<ref>Gibson, Ian (1997) p. 82</ref> Dalí was 16 years old and later said his mother's death "was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul."<ref name="Meisler" /><ref>Dalí, Secret Life, pp. 152–53</ref> After
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