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 1-6 also.
This is part 7 of an 18-part series on the works of Salvador Dali.
All artworks © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres.
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| 1933 The Triangular Hour oil on canvas 62.3 x 47.9 cm Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Japan |
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| 1933 The Sugar Sphinx oil on canvas 72.7 x 59.6 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1933 The Phantom Cart oil on wood panel 19 x 24.1 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1933 The Phantom Cart oil on wood panel 15.9 x 21.9 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| c1933 Meditation on the Harp oil on canvas 67 x 47 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1933 Gala and the Angelus of Millet preceding the imminent arrival of the Conical Anamorphoses oil on wood panel 24.2 x 19.2 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| c1933 Average Atmopherocephalic Bureaucrat in the act of milking a Cranial Harp oil on canvas 22.2 x 16.5 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1933 Atmospheric Chair oil on wood panel 18.1 x 13.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1933 Atavism at twilight (Obsessional Phenomenon) oil on wood panel 13.8 x 17.9 cm Kunstmuseum, Bern |
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| c1933 The enigma of William Tell oil on canvas 201.3 x 346.5 cm Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| c1933 The Anguished Barber by the Persistency of Good Weather oil on canvas 24 x 16.5 cm Perls Galleries, New York |
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| c1933 Portrait of Gala with Lobster oil on plywood panel 20 x 22.5 cm Private Collection |
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| c1933 Portrait of Gala oil on wood panel 8.5 x 6.5 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1933 Myself at the age of ten when I was a grasshopper child oil on wood panel 21.9 x 16.9 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1934 Invisible Harp oil on canvas 35 x 27 cm Private Collection |
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| 1934 Enigmatic Elements in a Landscape oil on wood panel 72.8 x 56.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1934 Eclipse and Vegetable Osmosis oil on canvas 65.5 x 53.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1934 Cavalier of Death ink on paper 98.4 x 72 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1934 Atmospheric Skull sodomizing a Grand Piano oil on wood panel 14 x 17.8 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1934 Moment of Transition oil on canvas 54 x 64.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1934 Onan: Illustrated book with one photogravure, aquatint, and drypoint with roulette (frontispiece) 25.8 x 20 cm (plate) |
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| 1934 Onan |
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| 1934 Paranoiac-astral image oil on wood panel 15.5 x 22 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
In 1930 Dali was invited to illustrate Les Chants de Maldoror, an 1869 text rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1930s that told a nightmarish tale of an unrepentantly evil protagonist. The book was filled with scenes of violence, perversion, and blasphemy. Dali, who worked in a method he called "paranoiac-critical," used a stream-of-consciousness process to access hallucinations and delusions. These personal visions, rather than scenes described in the prose poem, became the subjects of his illustrations. These illustrations are from 1934:
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| Les Chants de Maldoror front cover beige and black morocco, inlaid, suede, wood |
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| Frontispiece 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 10 22.5 x 17.3 cm |
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| Facing page 16 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 22 11.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 28 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 40 22.7 x 17.2 cm |
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| Facing page 46 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 52 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 58 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 64 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 70 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 76 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 82 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 92 22.4 x 17.2 cm |
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| Facing page 96 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 102 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 106 22.4 x 17.2 cm |
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| Facing page 116 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 122 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 126 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 132 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 138 22.4 x 17.3 cm |
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| Facing page 146 22.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 152 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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| Facing page 158 22.4 x 17.2 cm |
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| Facing page 164 22.4 x 17.2 cm |
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| Facing page 178 22.4 x 17.2 cm |
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| Facing page 184 22.4 x 17.1 cm |
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