Dalí and artworks 1904-1989

Victoria Charles

• Publisher: Parkstone International
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781781609606
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Artist Monographs

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a prime example of his freshness, humour and exploration of the subconscious mind. Throughout his life, Dalí was a genius at self-promotion, creating and maintaining his reputation as a mythical figure.

Table of contents

• Biography
• Dutch Interior (Copy after Manuel Benedito)
• Scene in Cabaret
• Penya-Segats (Woman on the Rocks)
• Unsatisfied Desires
• Profanation of the Host
• Portrait of Paul Eluard
• The Bleeding Roses
• Untitled (William Tell and Gradiva)
• The Old Age of William Tell
• Partial Hallucination Six Apparitions of Lenin on a Grand Piano
• Remorse or Sunken Sphynx
• The Persistence of Memory
• Fried Eggs on the Plate without the Plate
• Portrait of the Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles
• Meditation on the Harp
• Geological Destiny
• The Architectonic Angelus of Millet
• The Enigma of William Tell
• Gala and the Angelus of Millet Preceding the Imminent Arrival of the Conical Anamorphoses
• Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops Balanced on Her Shoulder
• Masochist Instrument
• Atavism at Twilight
• The Spectre of Sex Appeal
• Vertigo Atavism after the Rain
• The Knight of Death
• Surrealist Poster
• The Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition
• Mae West’s Face which May Be Used as a Surrealist Apartment
• Woman with a Head of Roses
• The Angelus of Gala
• The Horseman of Death
• Singularities
• Sun Table
• Soft Construction with Boiled Beans – Premonition of Civil War
• The Burning Giraffe
• Night and Day Clothes of the Body
• Geodesic Portrait of Gala
• A Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds
• The Anthropomorphic Cabinet
• Suburbs of Paranoiac-Critical Town: Afternoon on the Outskirts of European History
• Cover of Minotaure No. 8
• Three Young Surrealist Women Holding in Their Arms the Skin of an Orchestra
• Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone
• Impressions of Africa
• The Enigma of Hitler
• Honey is Sweeter than Blood
• Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon
• Fighting the Minotaure
• Poetry of America, the Cosmic Athletes
• Geopolitical Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening
• Design for the Set of the Ballet Tristan and Isolde
• Study for the Backdrop of the Ballet Tristan Insane (Act II)
• Design for the Ball in the Dream Sequence in “Spellbound”
• Galarina
• My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her own Flesh Becoming Stairs, Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture
• Napoleon’s Nose, Transformed into a Pregnant Woman, Walking His Shadow with Melancholia Amongst Original Ruins
• The Eye – Design for “Spellbound”
• Atomic Melancholy, Uranic Idyll
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony
• Dematerialisation of the Nose of Nero
• Leda Atomica
• The Madonna of Port Lligat
• The Madonna of Port Lligat
• Study for the head of “The Madonna of Port Lligat”
• Raphaelesque Head Exploded
• The Last Supper
• Desintegration of the Persistence of Memory
• The Maximum Speed of Raphael’s Madonna
• Explosion
• Christ of Saint John the Cross
• The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (The Dream of Christopher Columbus)
• The Railway Station at Perpignan
• Tuna Fishing
• Mad Mad Mad Minerva
• Hallucinogenic Toreador
• Wind Palace
• Dalí from the back Painting Gala from the back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected in Six Real Mirrors (unfinished)
• Gala’s Castle at Púbol
• Wounded Soft Watch
• Equestrian Portrait of Carmen Bordiu-Franco
• Soft Heads with Egg on a Plate without a Plate, Angels, and Soft Monsters in an Angelic Landscape
• Velázquez Dying behind the Window on the Left Side out of which a Spoon Projects