The World - News from Dec. 6, 1988

Artist Salvador Dali was transferred from an intensive care unit to a room in a Spanish clinic, a week after he was hospitalized because of heart trouble and blood clots in his lungs. The 84-year-old painter “continues to improve” and is no longer receiving medication intravenously, according to doctors at Barcelona’s Quiron Clinic. The artist, who has been in poor health since 1984, was taken to the clinic Nov. 28 from a hospital in his hometown of Figueras, 60 miles north of Barcelona. Dali, a founder of the surrealist movement, is the last living member of an outstanding generation of Spanish painters that included Pablo Picasso, who died in 1973, and Joan Miro, who died a decade later.