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 1-8 also.
This is part 9 of an 18-part series on the works of Salvador Dali.
All artworks © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres.
c1935 The Tower
oil on canvas 65.5 x 54 cm
Kunsthaus, Zurichc1935 The Echo of the Void
oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm
Private Collectionc1935 Singularities
oil and collage on board 40.5 x 50 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueresc1935 Paranonïa
oil on canvas 38.1 x 46 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Floridac1935 Paranoiac Face
oil on wood panel 18.5 x 22.5 cm
Private Collectionc1935 Morphological Echo
oil on canvas 64.8 x 61.5 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida1935 Woman with Head of Roses
oil on wood panel 35 x 27 cm
Kunsthaus, Zurich1936 Apparition of the town of Delft
oil on wood panel 30 x 35 cm
Private Collection1936 Anthropomorphism, extra flat
oil on wood panel 11 x 19 cm
Private Collection1936 A trombone and a sofa fashioned out of saliva
oil on wood panel 19 x 24 cm
Private Collection1936 A chemist lifting with extreme precaution the cuticle of a grand piano
oil on canvas 48.3 x 64.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL1936 "Minataure" cover
oil and collage on cardboard 33 x 26.5 cm
Private Collection1936 "Geodesical" portrait of Gala
oil on wood panel 21.8 x 27.3 cm
Yokohama Museum, Japan1936 Girl Skipping in a Landscape tryptich
oil on canvas side panels 261 x 84 cm centre panel 293 x 280 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands1936 Forgotten horizon
oil on wood panel 22.2 x 26.6 cm
Tate Modern, London1936 Feminine head which has the form of a battle
oil on wood panel 10.2 x 12.7 cm
Private Collection1936 Diurnal Melancholy
oil and collage on wood panel 30 x 52 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany1936 Couple with their heads full of clouds
oil on plywood panels male figure 92.5 x 69.5 cm female figure 82.5 x 62.5 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands1936 City of drawers
oil on wood panel 25.4 x 44.2 cm
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf1936 The bread on the head, and the prodigal with the father
oil on canvas 22 x 17 cm
Private Collection1936 Studies of Horsemen
ink on paper 43.8 x 54.6 cm
MoMA, New York1936 Soft construction with boiled apricots
oil on canvas 99.9 x 100 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA1936 Dreams puts her hand on a man's shoulder
oil on canvas 48 x 74 cm
Private Collection1936 Necrophilic Spring
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm
Private Collection1936 Morphological echo
oil on. wood panel 30.4 x 33 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida1936 Three young surrealist women holding in their arms the skins of an orchestra
oil on canvas 53 x 65 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida1936 The man with the head of blue hortensias
oil on canvas 16.2 x 22 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida1936 The Great Paranoiac
oil on canvas 62 x 62 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands1936 The fossil automobile of Cape Creus
oil on wood panel 31 x 37 cm
Nahmad Collection, Switzerlandc1936 Surrealist Composition with Invisible Figures
oil on cardboard 60.9 x 45.8 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueresc1936 Perspectives
oil on canvas 65 x 65.5 cm
Emanuel Hoffman Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Baselc1936 Man with his head full of clouds
oil on cardboard 18.1 x 14 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueresc1936 Autumnal cannibalism
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London1937 Swans reflecting elephants
oil on canvas 51 x 77 cm
Private Collection1937 Metamorphosis of Narcissus
oil on canvas 51.1 x 78.1 cm
Tate Modern, London1937 Couple with their heads full of clouds
oil on wood panel left figure 94.5 x 74.5
right figure 87.7 x 65.8 cm
Private Collection1937 Average Pagan Landscape
oil on canvas 38.5 x 46.5 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres1937 Anbattet
oil on canvas 74.9 x 108 cm
Private Collectionc1937 Untitled (Vision of Eternity)
oil on canvas 207 x 117.5 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago, ILc1937 Sleep
oil on canvas 51 x 78 cm
Private Collectionc1937 Invention of the Monsters
oil on canvas 51.4 x 78.1 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago, ILc1937 Burning Giraffe
oil on wood panel 35 x 27 cm
Emanuel Hoffman Foundation,
on permanent loan to the Öffentlichec1937 Anatomies
oil on cardboard on wood panel 50 c 64 cm
Private Collection1938 Mad Tristan
oil on wood panel 45.7 x 54.9 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida1938 Imperial violets
oil on canvas 100 x 142.5 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres1938 Endless Enigma
oil on canvas 114.5 x 146.5 cm
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid1938 Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone
oil on canvas 54.5 x 65.1 cm
MoMA, New York1938 Apparition of face and fruit-dish on a beach
oil on canvas 114.3 x 143.8 cm
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT1938 The sublime moment
oil on canvas 38 x 47 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany1938 The Image disappears
oil on canvas 56.5 x 50.5 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres1938 Spain
oil on canvas 92 x 60 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands1938 Palladio's corridor of dramatic disguise
oil on canvas 104 cm
Private Collection1938 Melancholic eccentricity
oil on canvas 73 x 92.1 cm
Tate Moden, London
1938 Mae West Lips Sofa
Dali designed this sofa with his English benefactor Edward James. The lips of sex symbol and film star Mae West were the inspiration for this piece of furniture. Three pairs were made of this sofa, each different.
1938 Mae West Lips Sofa
