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 1-11 also.
This is part 12 of an 18-part series on the works of Salvador Dali.
All artworks © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres.
1946 Ravel's Bolero oil on canvas 36 x 23.8 cm Private Collection |
c1946 Trilogy of the desert. Mirage oil on canvas 35.6 x 60 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
c1946 Trilogy of the desert. Invisible lovers oil on canvas 36.5 x 60 cm Private Collection |
1946 Trilogy of the desert. Oasis oil on canvas 35.6 x 60 cm Private Collection |
c1946 Three apparitions of the visage of Gala oil on plywood panel 20.5 x 25.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
c1946 Project for "Vogue" oil on wood panel 3.2 x 25 cm Private Collection |
1947-49 Leda Atomica oil on canvas 61 x 46 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
1947 Untitled oil on canvas 58.4 x 68.6 cm Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima, Japan |
1947 The Three Sphinxes of Bikini oil on canvas 40.6 x 51.4 cm Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima, Japan |
1947 St. George and the Dragon etching 44.8 x 228.6 cm (plate) |
1947 Portrait of Pablo Picasso in the twenty-first century oil on canvas 65.5 x 56 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
1947 Intra-atomic equilibrium of a swan's feather oil on canvas 78 x 97 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
1947 Dematerialization near the nose of Nero oil on canvas 76.5 x 46 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
c1947 Rock and infuriated horse sleeping under the sea oil on canvas 19 x 12 cm (Location unknown) |
c1947 Leda atomica (unfinished) oil on plywood panel 61 x 45.8 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
c1947 Battle around a dandelion oil on canvas 56 x 76 cm Private Collection |
1948 Untitled (Nude in the Desert) oil on canvas 70.5 x 105.6 cm Private Collection |
1948 Project for "As you like it" oil on canvas 50 x 59.5 cm Private Collection |
1948 Project for "As you like it" oil on canvas 49 x 60 cm Private Collection |
1948 Portrait of Nada Pachevich oil on canvas 132 x 81.5 cm Private Collection |
1948 Portrait of Mitzi Sigall details not found |
1948 Portrait of Enid Haldorn oil on canvas 76.8 x 108 cm Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA |
1949 The Madonna of Portlligat oil on canvas 49.5 x 38.3 cm Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee |
1949 Portrait of Sir James Dunn oil on canvas 132.7 x 90.5 cm Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada |
1950 The piece of cork oil on canvas 63.5 x 53.5 cm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
1950 Portrait of Josephine Hartfort Bryce oil on canvas 71.8 x 56.2 cm Private Collection |
1950 Landscape of Portlligat with familiar angels and fishermen oil on canvas 61 x 61 cm Private Collection |
1950 Carnation and cloth of gold oil on canvas 33 x 43 cm (Location unknown) |
c1950 The Madonna of Portlligat oil on canvas 275.3 x 209.8 cm Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan |
c1950 Erotic Beach oil on canvas 14 x 17.5 cm Péez Simón Collection, Mexico |
c1950 Dalí at the age of six, when he thought he was a girl, lifting the skin of the water to see a dog sleeping in the shade of the sea oil on canvas 27 x 34 cm Private Collection |
1951 Portrait of Colonel Jack Warner oil on canvas 108 x 128.5 cm Syracuse University Art Collection, New York |
1951 Mystic manifesto (Manifeste mystique) etching 35.5 x 25.2 cm (composition) |
1951 Exploding Raphaelesque head oil on canvas 43.2 x 33.1 cm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
1951 Christ oil on canvas 204.8 x 115.9 cm Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK |
1952 The Angel of Portlligat oil on canvas 59.8 x 78 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
1952 The Angel of Portlligat oil on canvas (size not given) Private Collection |
1952 Portrait of Berthe David-Weill oil on canvas 101.6 x 61 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
1952 Gala Placidia oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
1952 Evangelical still life oil on canvas 54.6 x 87 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
1952 Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina oil on canvas 229.9 x 144.2 cm Masaveu Collection, Oviedo, Spain |
1952-54 The corpuscular persistence of memory oil on canvas 25.4 x 33 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
c1952 Nuclear Cross oil on canvas 31 x 23 cm Private Collection |
c1952 Arithmosophic Cross oil on canvas 84 x 53 cm Private Collection |
1953 Portrait of Mrs. Eric Phillips oil on canvas 108 x 80.8 cm Private Collection |
1953 Portrait of Ann Woodward oil on canvas 85.7 x 61 cm Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima, Japan |
1954 The lighthouse of Alexandria oil on cardboard 17.9 x 12 cm Private Collection |
1954 The Colossus of Rhodes oil on canvas 68.8 x 39 cm Kunstmuseum, Bern |
1954 Portrait of the Prince Gourielli oil on canvas 99.1 x 71.1 cm Private Collection |
1954 Equestrian fantasy (Portrait of Lady Dunn) oil on canvas 119.7 x 134.6 cm Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada |