The artist, author, critic, impresario, and provocateur Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989) burst onto the art scene in 1929 and rarely left the public eye until his death six decades later. The auspicious occasion was the debut in Paris of Un Chien Andalou, a film Dalí made in collaboration with Luis Buñuel. Filmed in Paris, Un Chien Andalou strung together free-associative vignettes and made full use of the avant-garde technique of montage, including, most famously, a scene of a razor slicing into a woman’s eye.The film catapulted Dalí to the center of the Surrealist community. An artistic and intellectual movement begun by André Breton in 1924, Surrealism championed the unconscious as the primary motor of human behavior, coupling this with an aspiration to political revolution. Although Dalí’s association with Surrealism was late-coming and short-lived (he would be expelled from the group in 1934), his arrival jolted new life into the movement. Dalí’s chief theoretical contribution to Surrealism was his elaboration, in the early 1930s, of the “paranoiac-critical method”—a process, he wrote, to “systematise confusion and thereby contribute to a total discrediting of the world of reality.” The method described a deliberately disoriented state of mind that would allow an individual to connect unrelated things, forging fresh avenues of thought and creation. Around the same time, he also published several essays naming and defining the so-called “Surrealist object”: an object “functioning symbolically,” usually constructed from found items or readymade materials, and redolent with psychological power. His Retrospective Bust of a Woman was one such object. Beneath its seemingly haphazardly embellished portrait bust of a woman pulsed a rich network of associations, from references to consumption (corn cobs and a baguette) to putrefaction (an ant swarm, a recurrent motif in Dalí’s work).
Museum of Modern Art, New York
This is part 1 of an 18-part series on the works of Salvador Dali.
All artworks © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres.
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| 1910-14 Vilabertran gouache on cardboard on wood panel 15 x 20 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910-14 Landscape with River oil on cardboard (postcard) 9 x 14 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1910-14 Landscape with figures oil on cardboard (postcard) 9 x 14 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910-14 Landscape with Animals oil on cardboard (postcard) 9 x 14 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910-14 Landscape oil on cardboard (postcard) 14 x 9 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1915 Untitled oil on wood panel 16.5 x 20.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1915c Cadaqués. View from the House at Es Llaner Beach oil on wood panel 10 x 20 cm Private Collection |
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| c1915 Cadaqués oil on canvas 19.2 x 26.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1915 Dutch Interior oil on canvas 16.2 x 19.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres. |
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| c1916 Empordà Landscape oil on carboard 19.5 x 31 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| c1916 Cadaqués. Es Llaner Beach oil on canvas 26.5 x 19.5 cm Private Collection |
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| c1917 My Cousin Montserrat oil on canvas 47 x 41.5 cm (framed) The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| 1917 Portrait of Llúcia oil on canvas 44.1 x 33.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Still Life oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
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| 1918 Moonlit Night oil on canvas 26 x 31 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Duck oil on canvas 53 x 34 cm Private Collection |
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| c1918 Port of Cadaqués (Night) oil on canvas 18.7 x 26.4 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1918 Port d'Alguer, Cadaqués oil on canvas 21.5 x 28 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1918 Old Man at the Twilight Hour oil on canvas 50 x 30 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 Moonlight at Es Llaner-Petit oil on canvas 21 x 26.4 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 Es Pianc oil on canvas 37 x 26 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 Cadaqués Fishermen oil on canvas 26.9 x 34 cm (framed) The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 The Sardana of the Witches watercolour, oil and ink wash on paper 42 x 59.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 Still Life. Fish with Red Bowl oil on canvas 50.2 x 55.3 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1918 Still Life with Pomegranate oil on wood panel 14.5 x 26.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 Salerna oil on canvas 30.5 x 34.5 cm Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
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| c1918 Punta Es Baluard in the Riba d'en Pichot, Cadaqués oil on canvas 21 x 28 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1918 Portrait of the Artist's Mother oil on canvas 40.1 x 27.2 cm Private Collection |
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| c1918 Vegetable Garden at Es Llaner, Cadaqués oil on canvas 20 x 27.5 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1918 Untitled oil on canvas 19.8 x 26.7 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 Untitled oil on canvas 19.8 x 26.7 cm Private Collection |
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| c1918 Three Figures oil on canvas 36.5 x 38 cm (framed) The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 The Woman with the Pitcher oil on canvas 34.6 x 26 cm (framed) The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1918 The Three Pines oil on canvas 28 x 38 cm Private Collection |
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| c1918 Water Pitcher oil on canvas 53 x 41.5 cm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
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| c1918 View of Port d'Alguer, Cadaqués oil on canvas 44 x 55.2 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida. |
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| c1919 Landscape of Cadaqués. Port Alguer oil on canvas 36 x 38.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1919 Girls in a Garden. The Cousins oil on canvas 53 x 41 cm Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima, Japan |
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| c1919 Es Poal - Pianc oil on canvas 22 x 28 cm Private Collection |
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| c1919 El "Son" (The Son) oil on cardboard 23.8 x 19 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1919 Cadaqués oil on canvas 31 x 33.2 cm Kunstmuseum, Bern |
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| c1919 Cadaqués at Dawn oil on canvas 42 x 52.4 cm Private Collection |
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| c1919 Portrait of Mr. Pancraci oil on canvas 74 x 42 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1919 Portrait of Grandmother Anna Sewing oil on canvas 36.8 x 29.8 cm Private Collection |
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| c1919 Port d'Alguer, Cadaqués oil on canvas 19.5 x 26/5 cm Private Collection |
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| c1919 Port d'Alguer Beach from Riba d'en Picho oil on canvas 20.3 x 24.1 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1919 Moonlight over the Bay at Cadaqués oil on canvas 38.5 x 27 cm Private Collection |
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| c1919 Lac de Vilabertran oil on canvas 42 x 32.4 cm Private Collection |
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| c1919 Landscape oil on canvas 19 x 26.4 cm Private Collection |
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| c1919 Landscape oil on canvas 19 x 25.4 cm Private Collection |
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| c1921 Self-Portrait with Raphaelesque neck oil on canvas 40.3 x 53 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1921 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 36.8 x 41.9 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1921 Saltimbanques gouache on cardboard 17.1 x 13.6 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1921 Portrait of Jaume Miravitlles oil on cardboard on wood panel 104.5 x 39.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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| c1921 Portrait of a Gypsy tempera on cardboard 33 x 24 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Figueres |
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