ART

An Irish art collector said Sunday he is donating his 300-painting collection of works by surrealist painter Salvador Dali to the Spanish state. “It’s an obvious thing to do. The Dali paintings belong to Spain,” said Peter Moore, a former secretary to Dali who now operates a Dali museum in the Spanish coastal of Cadaques. His collection represents about one-fifth of Dali’s work and includes the “Apotheosis of the Dollar.” Completed in 1966 and insured for $1.5 million, it is the painting Moore would like to see in the Prado museum in Madrid. “If they have a Picasso there they should have a Dali,” Moore said.