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Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a Surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English poet Edward James (1907–1984), a leading collector of surrealist art. In his 1942 book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dalí wrote teasingly of his demand to know why, when he asked for a grilled lobster in a ...
From 1934, Dalí had started incorporating lobsters into his work, including New York Dream-Man Finds Lobster in Place of Phone shown in the magazine American Weekly in 1935, and the mixed-media Lobster Telephone (1936). Dali saw lobsters as symbolic of sexuality. [2] The lobster is placed low on the dress, between the legs of the wearer, with ...
1942. The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is an autobiography by the internationally renowned artist Salvador Dalí published in 1942 by Dial Press. The book was written in French and translated into English by Haakon Chevalier. It covers his family history, his early life, and his early work up through the 1930s, concluding just after Dalí's ...
Landscape Near Figueras (1910) The Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida; Vilabertran (1913), Private collection; Fiesta in Figueres (1914–1916) Head of Athene (1914) Landscape Near Ampurdan (1914) Untitled (1914) Untitled – House by a Lake (1914) Dutch Interior (1915) Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation; 1916-1918. Empordà Landscape (1916) Gala ...
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol [a] gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE, [1] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli], Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), [b] was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre ...
The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.
18.1 cm × 13.97 cm (7.13 in × 5.5 in) Location. Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida. Detail of Vermeer's The Art of Painting showing the painter at his easel using a maulstick. The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table is a small Surrealist oil painting by Salvador Dalí. Its full title is The Ghost of Vermeer of ...
Museum listing. Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Dalí created the piece to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, having painted it only six months before the conflict began. He subsequently claimed that he was aware the war was going ...