“When I was introduced to Salvador Dalí, in the summer of 1973, he was committing an act of fraud. To his detractors, Dalí’s whole life was a fraud, a great talent prostituted for personal fame and gain. But this was real fraud. I had been shown into his suite at the Ritz Hotel in Barcelona to find him seated at a table, pen in hand, in front of a large pile of blank sheets of lithographic paper. As Dalí signed each sheet, his business manager, a dapper Englishman named Captain Peter Moore, pulled it away to reveal a clean one. It was quite the production line. At the time I was puzzled, and intrigued – not least when Dalí’s companion and muse, Amanda Lear, joked that “that’s another $100,000 Dalí has made this morning”. It was only years later that it would be revealed that Dalí […] was flooding the art market with blank, signed sheets, perpetuating the business of fakes and fraudulent “limited editions’’.
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He may have appeared to be doing that, but he was being blackmailed by Gala.
Sorry I can’t recall the exact details, but many years ago I read both of Dali’s autobiographies and I think it were the smaller second volume that offered many insights into his real life.