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.
1933 The Triangular Hour
oil on canvas 62.3 x 47.9 cm
Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Japan1933 The Sugar Sphinx
oil on canvas 72.7 x 59.6 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida1933 The Phantom Cart
oil on wood panel 19 x 24.1 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres1933 The Phantom Cart
oil on wood panel 15.9 x 21.9 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CTc1933 Meditation on the Harp
oil on canvas 67 x 47 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Floridac1933 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, Ottawac1933 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, Floridac1933 Atmospheric Chair
oil on wood panel 18.1 x 13.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, ILc1933 Atavism at twilight (Obsessional Phenomenon)
oil on wood panel 13.8 x 17.9 cm
Kunstmuseum, Bernc1933 The enigma of William Tell
oil on canvas 201.3 x 346.5 cm
Moderna Museet, Stockholmc1933 The Anguished Barber by the Persistency of Good Weather
oil on canvas 24 x 16.5 cm
Perls Galleries, New Yorkc1933 Portrait of Gala with Lobster
oil on plywood panel 20 x 22.5 cm
Private Collectionc1933 Portrait of Gala
oil on wood panel 8.5 x 6.5 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Floridac1933 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, Florida1934 Invisible Harp
oil on canvas 35 x 27 cm
Private Collection1934 Enigmatic Elements in a Landscape
oil on wood panel 72.8 x 56.5 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres1934 Eclipse and Vegetable Osmosis
oil on canvas 65.5 x 53.5 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres1934 Cavalier of Death
ink on paper 98.4 x 72 cm
MoMA, New York1934 Atmospheric Skull sodomizing a Grand Piano
oil on wood panel 14 x 17.8 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
1934 Moment of Transition
oil on canvas 54 x 64.5 cm
Private Collection1934 Onan: Illustrated book with one photogravure, aquatint, and drypoint with roulette (frontispiece) 25.8 x 20 cm (plate) 1934 Onan 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:
Les Chants de Maldoror
front cover beige and black morocco, inlaid, suede, woodFrontispiece
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