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 1-10 also.
This is part 11 of an 18-part series on the works of Salvador Dali.
All artworks © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres.
1942 Untitled (Two Harlequins)
oil on canvas 217 x 358 cm
Private Collection1942 The Birth of a New World
oil on canvas 35.5 x 45 cm
Private Collection1942 The Ascension
oil on canvas 36.1 x 32.1 cm
Private Collection1942 Saint George
oil on ivory 7.5 x 10 cm
Private Collection1942 Project for "Romeo and Juliet"
oil on canvas 69.4 x 79.4 cm
Péez Simón Collection, Mexico1942 Project for "Romeo and Juliet"
oil on canvas 50.7 x 50.7 cm
(Location not found)c1942 Project for a mural for Helena Rubinstein
oil on canvas 48.3 x 44.1 cm
Private Collection1943 The Triumph of Tourbillon
oil on canvas 31 x 39.5 cm
Private Collection1943 The Madonna
oil on canvas 50.8 x 27.9 cm
Private Collection1943 Project for "Café de Chinitas"
oil on canvas 55.5 x 86 cm
Private Collection1943 Portrait of Princess Artchil Gourielli
oil on canvas 88.9 x 66 cm
Private Collection1943 Portrait of Mrs. Harrison Williams
oil on canvas 92 x 62 cm
Private Collection1943 Poetry of America
oil on canvas 116 x 79 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres1943 New Accessories
oil on canvas 31.8 x 46.4 cm
Private Collection1943 "Geopoliticus" child watching the birth of the new man
oil on canvas 44.5 x 52 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Floridac1943 Project for "Café de Chinitas"
oil on canvas 90 x 60 cm
Private Collectionc1943 His Excellency Don Juan Cardenas, Spanish Ambassador
oil on canvas 61.3 x 50.8 cm
Private Collectionc1943 Dali Eyes Fashion for "Vogue"
oil on canvas 33 x 25.4 cm
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madridc1943 Allegory of an American Christmas
oil on board 66 x 55.5 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan1944 The God of the Bay of Roses
oil on canvas 56.2 x 77 cm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond1944 Project for "Sentimental Colloquy"
oil on canvas 26 x 47 cm
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida1944 Project for "Mad Tristan"
oil on canvas 26.5 x 48.5 cm
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres1944 Project for "Mad Tristan"
oil on canvas 26.5 x 48. cm
Private Collection
1944 Métronome
Long before Dali designed this metronome, the American artist Man Ray has already caused a sensation with a metronome entitled “Indestructible Object (Object to be destroyed)” in 1923. Ten years later Man Ray adapted the object as a result of the breakdown of his relationship with his muse, the photographer Lee Miller. He attached a cut-out photograph of her eye to the pendulum.transforming the metronome into a provocative portrait.
1944 Métronome
metronome and chalk on paper
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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| 1944 Project for "Spellbound" oil on canvas 50.5 x 60.5 cm Private Collection |
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| c1945 Project for "Spellbound" oil on wood panel 60 x 85 cm Private Collection |
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| c1945 Project for "Spellbound" oil on board 73 x 92 cm Private Collection |
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| c1945 Project for "Spellbound" oil on board 88.9 x 113.2 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| c1945 Project for "Spellbound" oil on board 88.1 x 113.1 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| c1945 Project for "Spellbound" oil on board 88.8 x 113.1 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| c1944 Project for "Mad Tristan" oil on canvas 60 x 96 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| c1944 Project for "Mad Tristan" oil on canvas 29.5 x 22.5 cm Private Collection |
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| c1944 Portrait of Mrs. Jack Warner oil on canvas 111.1 x 94.6 cm Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima, Japan |
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| c1944 One second before the awakening from a dream provoked by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate oil on wood panel 51 x 41 cm Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
c1944 Midsummer Night’s Mare
Photograph by Philippe Halsman in collaboration with Dali. He photographed Dali in dozens of fantasy decors. This one is a festive group suspended in a woodland setting.
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c1944 Midsummer Night’s Mare photograph |
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| c1944 Flying giant demi-tasse with incomprehensible appendage five metres long oil on canvas 50 x 31 cm Private Collection |
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| c1944 Project for "Mad Tristan" oil on canvas 60 x 96 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1945 Portrait of Mrs. Isabel Styler-Tas oil on canvas 65.5 x 86 cm Staatliche Musee zu Berlin, National Galerie, Berlin |
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| 1945 Napoleon's nose, transformed into a pregnant woman, strolling his shadow with melancholia amongst original ruins oil on canvas 51 x 65.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1945 My wife, nude, contemplating her own flesh becoming stairs, three vertebrae of a column, sky and architecture oil on wood panel 61 x 52 cm Private Collection |
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| 1945 Galarina oil on canvas 64 x 50 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1945 Fountain of milk spreading itself uselessly upon three shoes oil on canvas 18.4 x 21.6 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1945 Autumn sonata oil on canvas 16.5 x 30.5 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| c1945 Apotheosis of Homer (Diurnal dream of Gala) oil on canvas 63.7 x 116.7 cm Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich |
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| 1945 Uranium and atomic melancholica idyll oil on canvas 66.5 x 86.5 cm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
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| 1945 The flight, the temptation, the love, the broken wings oil on wood panel 22.5 x 50.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1945 The broken bridge and the dream oil on canvas 66 x 86.4 cm The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| 1945 The basket of bread oil on plywood panel 33 x 38 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1946 Portrait of Luli Kollsman oil on canvas 77 x 92 cm Fundacón Juan March, Majorca, Balearic Islands Destino (Spanish for 'Destiny') was story-boarded by Disney studio artist John Hench and Salvador Dalí for eight months in late 1945 and 1946, but production ceased not long after. Walt Disney Studios was in financial difficulty in the World War II era. Hench compiled a short animation test of about 17 seconds in the hopes of rekindling Disney's interest in the project, but the production was no longer deemed financially viable and put on indefinite hiatus. In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney, while working on Fantasia 2000, unearthed the dormant project and decided to bring it back to life. Walt Disney Studios Paris, the company's small Parisian production department, was brought on board to complete the project. The short was produced by Baker Bloodworth and directed by French animator Dominique Montféry in his first directorial role. A team of approximately 25 animators deciphered Dalí and Hench's cryptic storyboards (with a little help from the journals of Dalí's wife Gala and guidance from Hench himself), and finished Destino's production. The end result is mostly traditional animation, including Hench's original footage, but it also contains some computer animation. |
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| 1946 Project for "Destino" oil and collage on Masonite board 45.5 x 60.3 cm Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Burbank, CA |
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| c1946 Project for "Destino" oil on Masonite board 50.5 x 63.8 cm Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Burbank, CA |
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| c1946 Project for "Destino" oil on Masonite board 50.5 x 63.5 cm Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Burbank, CA |
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| c1946 Project for "Destino" oil on Masonite board 50.5 x 63.5 cm Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Burbank, CA |
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| c1946 Project for "Destino" oil on Masonite board 47.9 x 60.6 cm Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Burbank, CA |
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| c1946 Project for "Destino" oil and pencil on printed paper on panel 50.5 x 63.5 cm The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres |
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| 1946 The Temptation of St. Anthony oil on canvas 89.5 x 119.5 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels |
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| 1946 Project for "Destino" oil and collage on Masonite board 45.5 x 60.3 cm Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Burbank, CA |
