Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Salvador Dalí once stated that his purposewas to “systematize confusion and thus help discredit completely the world of reality.”

Salvador Dalí. Portrait of my Father (1920-21). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí. Cubist Self-portrait (1923). Gouacheand collage on card.

Salvador Dalí. Woman at the Window (1926). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí.The Breadbasket (1926).Oil on wood.

Salvador Dalí. The Great Masturbator (1929). Oil on canvas.

Cape Creus

Salvador Dalí. Sleep (1937). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí. Accommodations of Desire (1929). Oil on canvas.

The Surrealists in 1930

Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory (1931). Oil on canvas.

Details from The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí. The Shoe—Surrealist Object withSymbolic Function (1932).Assemblage of variousmaterials.

Salvador Dalí. Lobster Telephone (1936). Telephone and plaster.

Salvador Dalí. Gala withthe shoe hat made byElsa Schiaparelli (1936).

Salvador Dalí. Gala and Millet’s Angelus (1933). Oil on wood.

Jean-Francois Millet. The Angelus(1857-59). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí. Face of Mae West (can be used as surrealist apartment),1934-35. Gouache on newspaper.

Salvador Dalí. Soft Construction with Boiled Beans—Premonition of Civil War (1936). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí.The Burning Giraffe (1936-37).Oil on wood.

Salvador Dalí. The Invention of the Monsters (1937). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí. Swans Reflect Elephants (1936). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí. The Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí. Endless Enigma (1938). Oil on canvas.

Drawings by Salvador Dalí for his exhibition catalogue at Julien Levy’sGallery (1938).

Salvador Dalí. Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire(1940). Oil on canvas.

Detail from The Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire

Salvador Dalí. Paranoiaccritical method photo.

Salvador Dalí. The Passion of Saint Anthony (1946). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí. Christ ofSaint John of the Cross(1951). Oil on canvas.

Salvador Dalí. The Last Supper (1955). Oil on canvas.