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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.
Dalí (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈli]) was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work....
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Lobster Telephone
Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 with surrealist artist and patron Edward James. Dalí wrote of lobsters and telephones in his book The Secret Life, demanding to know why...
The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table
The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934) is a painting by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. The title refers to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the image of Vermeer viewed from his back is a reference to Vermeer's...
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The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus is the name of a painting by artist Salvador Dalí, begun in 1958 and finished in 1959. It is a huge canvas, over 14 feet tall and over 9 feet wide (410 x 284 cm; 161.4 x 111.8 in), one in a series of...
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The Madonna of Port Lligat
The Madonna of Port Lligat is the name of three paintings by Salvador Dalí. The first was created in 1949, measuring 49 x 37.5 centimetres (19.3 x 14.8 in), and is now housed in the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dali submitted it...
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí. (The title is also known as One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a...
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The Persistence of Memory
La persistencia de la memoria (1931) or The Persistence of Memory – also known by some as Melting Clocks – is the most famous painting by artist Salvador Dalí.
The painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York...
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The Great Masturbator
The Great Masturbator (1929) is a painting by Salvador Dalí executed during the surrealist epoch, and is currently displayed at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
The center of the painting has a distorted human face in profile...
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. Depicted is a grimacing dismembered figure symbolic of the Spanish state in civil war, alternately grasping upward at itself and...
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The Swallow's Tail
The Swallow's Tail — Series on Catastrophes (French: La queue d'aronde — Série des catastrophes) was the last painting of Salvador Dalí, done in May 1983. It is the final work in a series based on René Thom's catastrophe theory.
Thom suggested that...
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The Hallucinogenic Toreador
The Hallucinogenic Toreador is an oil painting. Salvador Dali painted it in 1970, following the canons of his particular interpretation of surrealist thought. It is currently being exhibited at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. In...
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Morphological Echo
Morphological Echo is a title shared by two oil on panel paintings created by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.
The first of these works was painted between 1934 and 1936 and measures 64 x 54 cm. It depicts a seemingly minimal architectural...
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The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
La desintegración de la persistencia de la memoria or The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (oil on canvas, c. 1952 to 1954), is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. It is an oil on canvas re-creation of the artist's famous...
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Swans Reflecting Elephants
Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This painting is from Dalí's Paranoiac-critical period. It focuses on a double-image that causes the reflections of swans on a pond to look like elephants; the...
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Metamorphosis of Narcissus
The Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This painting is from Dalí's Paranoiac-critical period. According to Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a...
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Still Life Moving Fast
Living Still Life (1956) is a hand oil painting on canvas by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting was originally known as Nature Morte Vivante and was Dalí's sixth masterwork. Dalí described the work as illustrating "the decomposition...
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Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity
Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity is a 1954 painting by Salvador Dalí. During the 1950s, Dalí painted many of his subjects as composed of rhinoceros horns. Here, the Young Virgin's buttocks consist of four converging horns...
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Tuna Fishing
Tuna Fishing (Homage to Meissonier) was painted by Salvador Dalí in 1966-1967 and is seen by many as one of Dalí's last masterpieces. Filled chaotically with the violent struggle of the men in the picture and the big fish. A golden knife stabs into...
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Christ of Saint John of the Cross
Christ of Saint John of the Cross is a painting by Salvador Dalí made in 1951. It depicts Jesus Christ on the cross in a darkened sky floating over a body of water complete with a boat and fishermen. Although it is a depiction of the crucifixion, it...
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The First Days of Spring
The First Days of Spring (1929) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This is probably the most famous example of Dalí’s early surrealist work.
The setting for this image is an expansive, smooth gray plane. It is elevated on the...
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Landscape Near Figueras
Landscape Near Figueras (1910) is a painting by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. This is one of the earliest known works by Dalí, having been painted when he was about six years old.
At the beginning of Dalí’s career, his primary influence was from...
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Cabaret Scene
Cabaret Scene (1922) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This was a unique cubist experiment that came between Dalí's early impressionist work and the classic surrealist technique he would later develop.
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The Burning Giraffe
The Burning Giraffe (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. Dalí painted Burning Giraffe before his exile in the United States which was from 1940 - 1948. Although Dalí declared himself apolitical— "I am Dalí, and only that"...
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The Face of War
The Face of War (The Visage of War; in Spanish La Cara de la Guerra) (1940) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. It was painted during a brief period when the artist lived in California.
The trauma and the view of war had often...
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La Toile Daligram
La Toile Daligram was a painting created in 1972 by Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), a Spanish artist best known for his surrealist work.
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Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time
Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (or Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of Contemporary Cinema), also known as the Barcelona Sphinx is a 1939 artwork in gouache, pastel and collage on...
The Sacrament of the Last Supper
Completed in 1955 after nine months of work, Salvador Dalí’s painting The Sacrament of the Last Supper has remained one of his most popular compositions. Since its popularity at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where almost upon its...
Crucifixion
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) was painted in 1954 by Salvador Dalí, and depicts the crucified Jesus upon the net of a hypercube. Gala (Dalí's wife), is the figure in the bottom left, who stands looking up to the crucified Jesus. The scene is...
The Lugubrious Game
The Lugubrious Game (or The Mournful Game) is a part oil painting and part collage on cardboard artwork created by Salvador Dali in 1929. It displays references to feces, sexual desire, castration and alludes to the “safety” of masturbation. The...
Portrait of Gala
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Illumined Pleasures
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The Persistence of Memory
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Basket of Bread
Basket of Bread (1945) or Basket of Bread-Rather Death Than Shame is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting depicts a single piece of bread sitting comfortably in a basket. The basket nears the edge of a table. Dalí gifted the...
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Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.
The picture shows a fruit on or in a wine glass. A human face (which would be seen again in one of Dalí's later works, The Endless Enigma) is...
The Basket of Bread
The Basket of Bread (1926) is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting depicts four pieces of bread with butter on them sitting in a basket. One is separated from the others and is half-bitten. The basket sits on a white cloth....
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Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire
Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting depicts a slave market, while a woman at a booth watches some people. A variety of people seem to make up the face of Voltaire...
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Leda Atomica
Leda Atomica is a painting by Salvador Dali, made in 1949. The picture depicts Leda, the mythological queen of Sparta, with the swan. Leda is a frontal portrait of Dalí's wife, Gala, who is seated on a pedestal with a swan suspended behind and to...
The Apotheosis of Homer
The Apotheosis of Homer is a 1944-45 painting by Salvador Dali. It is now at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, in Munich.
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Vilabertrin
Vilabertran (1913) is a painting by the Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. This is among Dalí's earliest works, having been painted when he was about nine years old. It is a landscape painting from Vilabertran (a village next to Figueres) as...
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Galatea of the Spheres
Galatea of the Spheres is a painting by Salvador Dalí made in 1952. It depicts Dali's muse, Gala, as pieced together through a series of spheres.
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A Logician Devil
A Logician Devil or The Logician Devil is an illustration of Lucifer created by Salvador Dali in 1951 for Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. The painting is done by the woodcut engraving technique. The woodcut measures 10" in length by 7.5" in width.
