Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Salvador Dali - part 5


Salvador Dalí is among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century and the most famous Surrealist. Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output, in the course of his long career he successfully turned to sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and, perhaps most famously, filmmaking in his collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock. Dalí was renowned for his flamboyant personality and role of mischievous provocateur as much as for his undeniable technical virtuosity. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. His paintings also evince a fascination for Classical and Renaissance art, clearly visible through his hyper-realistic style and religious symbolism of his later work.

For more biographical details see Part 1, and for earlier works see Parts 1-4 also.

This is part 5 of an 18-part series on the works of Salvador Dali.

All artworks © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres.



1928 Two Figures on a Beach
oil, shells and sand on cardboard 76.2 x 62.2 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1928 Woman-Animal symbiosis
oil, sand, shells and coarse sand on cardboard
50.2 x 65.5 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres

c1928 Abstract Composition
oil and collage (string) on canvas 148 x 198 cm
 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

c1928 Bathers
oil and collage on wood panel 52 x 71.7 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

1928c Bird
oil, sand, pebbles and shingle on board 49.7 x 61 cm
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

c1928 Bird...Fish
oil and collage on wood panel 61 x 49 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

c1928 Rotting Bird
oil and sand on cardboard 35 x 57 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres

c1928 Moonlight
oil, sand and shells on cardboard 63.1 x 75.2 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres

c1928 Moon and Sea Snail on a rock
oil and coarse sand on cardboard 50 x 61 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres

c1928 Four Fishemen's Wives in Cadaqués
oil on canvas 148 x 109 cm
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

c1928 Fishermen's Wives
oil and sand on canvas 185.5 x 199 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres

c1928 Untitled
oil on wood panel 35 x 29 cm
Private Collection

c1928 Untitled
oil on canvas 148 x 198 cm
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

c1928 The Spectral Cow
oil on wood panel 50.2 x 61.7 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

c1928 Composition
oil, sand and collage on wood panel 79.7 x 38.3 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres

1929 Illumined Pleasures
oil and collage on board 23.8 x 34.7 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1929 Accommodations of Desires
 oil and collage on cardboard 22.5 x 35 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1929 A Man of unhealthy complexion listening to the sound of the sea
oil on wood panel 23.5 x 34.5 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres


1929 The lugubrious game
oil and collage on cardboard 44.4 x 30.3 cm
Private Collection

1929 The First Days of Spring
oil and collage on wood panel 49.5 x 64 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

1929 The Enigma of Desire or Ma mère, ma mère, ma mère
oil on canvas 110.5 x 150.5 cm
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich

1929 Portrait of Paul Éluard
 oil on cardboard 33 x 25 cm
Private Collection

1929-32 The Invisible Man
oil on canvas 140 x 81 cm
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

1929 The Memory of the Woman-Child
oil and collage on canvas 140 x 81 cm
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

1930 Invisible sleeping woman horse lion
oil on canvas 50.2 x 65.2 cm
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

1930 Fish Man
oil on canvas 26.1 x 18.5 cm
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

1930 Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion
oil on canvas 60.6 x 70.4 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres

1930 Simulacrum of the Night
oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm
Private Collection

c1930 Surrealist Object Functioning Symbolically
shoe, marble, photographs, clay, hair, wax, wood, metal
Art Institute of Chicago, IL



1930 William Tell
oil and collage on canvas 113 x 87 cm
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

1930 Vertigo or the Tower of Pleasure
oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm
Private Collection

1930 The Hand. The Remorse of Conscience
oil and collage on canvas 41 x 66 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

1930 The Free Inclination of Desire
 oil on board 39.3 x 30.4 cm
Yale University, New Haven, CT

1930 The Font
oil and collage on board 66 x 41 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

1930 The Cranial Reflection
oil on canvas 81 x 64.8 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

c1930 Profanation of the Host
oil on canvas 100 x 73 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

c1930 Daybreak
oil on wood panel 69 x 44 cm
J. Nocholson, Beverly Hills, CA

1930-31 Board of Demented Associations
oil on metal 40 x 65.5 cm
Private Collection

1930 William Tell
oil and collage on canvas 113 x 87 cm
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

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