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 1-9 also.
This is part 10 of an 18-part series on the works of Salvador Dali.
All artworks © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres.
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| 1938 The transparent simulacrum of the feigned image oil on canvas 72,3 x 92 cm Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| c1938 Palladio's Corridor of Thalia oil on canvas 116 x 88.5 cm Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu-Shi, Mie-Ken, Japan |
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| c1938 Invisible Afghan with apparition, on the beach, of the face of Garcia Lorca, in the form of a fruit dish with three figs oil on wood panel 19.2 x 24.1 cm Private Collection |
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| c1938 Impression of Africa oil on canvas 91.5 x 117.5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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| c1938 Enchanted beach with three fluid graces oil on canvas 65 x 81.2 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1939 Project for "Bacchanale" oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Philosophy illuminated by the light of the moon and the setting sun oil on canvas 128 x 160 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Paranoia oil on wood panel 35 x 23.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Landscape with telephones on a dish oil on canvas 22 x 30 cm Private Collection |
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| 1939 Gala oil on canvas 56 x 50 cm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
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| 1939 Baby map of the world oil and printed paper on cardboard 46.4 x 38.3 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1939 The enigma of Hitler oil on canvas 95 x 141 cm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
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| 1939 Telephone in a dish with three grilled sardines oil on canvas 45.7 x 54.9 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1939 Shirley Temple, the youngest sacred monster of cinema of her time gouache, pastel amd collage on cardboard 75 x 100 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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| 1939 Psychoanalysis and morphology meet oil on canvas 25 x 46 cm Private Collection |
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| c1939 The Dream of Venus oil on canvas on 4 Masonite boards 240 x 480 cm Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Japan |
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| c1939 Portrait of Lady Louis Mountbatten oil on canvas 63 x 52 cm Private Collection |
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| c1939 Ballerina with skull oil on canvas 24.5 x 19.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 Group of women imitating the gestures of a schooner oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
1940 Frontispiece for Second Surrealist Manifesto
Dalí had recently joined the Surrealist movement when he executed this drawing, which served as the frontispiece for the "Second Surrealist Manifesto" when it was published in a limited edition of sixty copies in 1930. The composition's upper-right quadrant is dominated by an anthropomorphic chain of flesh, in which a human head turns into a lion, which becomes a misshapen, ant-infested profile. The succession continues with a bird's head, a mustachioed female bust, anothe male profile, and two more frontal faces, one animal and one human. These fantastic characters stretch out in a string of anatomy that might have continued endlessly were it not for the edge of the sheet.
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| 1940 Frontispiece for Second Surrealist Manifesto ink and gouache on paper 30.5 x 26.9 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1940 Family of marsupial centaurs oil on canvas 35.6 x 31 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 Daddy Longlegs of the evening - Hope! oil on canvas 40.5 x 50.8 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1940 Book transforming itself into a nude woman oil on canvas 41.2 x 51 cm Private Collection |
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| 1940 Allegory of the sunset air oil on canvas 25.4 x 18 cm Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima, Japan |
1940 Visage of the War
This work was painted in 1940, at the beginning of the Second World War. It has a universal scope, because Dali does not only evoke the Spanish Civil War or the Second World War but all conflicts that only lead to death, nothingness, destruction. With this work he therefore denounces the horrors of war and the suffering of men in the face of it.
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| 1940 Visage of the War oil on canvas 64 x 79 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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| 1940 Two pieces of bread expressing the sentiment of love oil on canvas 81.5 x 100.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1940 Slave market (with apparition of the invisible bust of Voltaire) oil on canvas 46.2 x 65.2 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1940 Old age, adolescence, infancy oil on canvas 50.2 x 65 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1940 Untitled oil and charcoal on plywood panel 300 x 131 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| c1940 Resurrection of the flesh oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm Private Collection |
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| 1941 Project for "Labyrinth" oil on canvas 64 x 79 cm Nahmad Collection, Switzerland |
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| 1941 Project for "Labyrinth" oil on canvas 38.1 x 63 cm Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| 1941 Project for "Labyrinth" oil on canvas 15 z 25.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1941 Original sin oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1941 Honey is sweeter than blood oil on canvas 49.5 x 60 cm The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA |
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| 1941 Bust of Voltaire oil on canvas 46.3 x 55.3 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1941 Untitled oil on canvas 43 x 35.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1941 Triumph of Nautilus oil on canvas 30.5 x 35.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1941 Study for a dress oil on canvas 46 x 33 cm Donald Thompson Estate, The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1941 Ruin with Head of Medusa and Landscape oil on canvas 38 x 24.5 cm Juan Abelló Gallo Collection, Madrid |
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| 1941 Soft self portrait with grilled bacon oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| c1941 Dressed Automobiles oil and collage on cardboard 49.9 x 39.4 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1942 Nude on the Plain of Roses oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm Private Collection |
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| 1942 Mural painting for Helena Rubinstein oil on canvas 249 x 243 cm Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan |
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| 1942 Mural painting for Helena Rubinstein oil on canvas 247.5 x 247 cm Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan |
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| 1942 Mrs. Dorothy Spreckels oil on canvas 78.7 x 63.8 cm Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1942 Mrs. Charles Swift oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm Private Collection |
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| 1942 Las llamas, llaman (The Flames, They Call) oil on canvas 145 x 123 cm Nahmad Collection, Switzerland |
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| 1942 Portrait of Marquis George de Cuevas oil on canvas 79 x 59 cm Private Collection |
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| 1942 Project for "Romeo and Juliet" oil on canvas 31 x 51 cm Private Collection |
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| 1942 Project for "Romeo and Juliet" oil on canvas 28.6 x 46.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1942 Project for "Romeo and Juliet" oil on canvas 23.5 x 46.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1942 Project for "Romeo and Juliet" oil on cardboard on board 29 x 38 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
