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Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937 by Salvador Dali

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Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937 by Salvador Dali

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Metamorphosis of Narcissus is Dali's interpretation of the Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus was a youth of great beauty who loved only himself and broke the hearts of many lovers. The gods punished him by letting him see his own reflection in a pool. He fell in love with it, but discovered he could not embrace it and died of frustration. Relenting, the gods immortalised him as the narcissus (daffodil) flower. For this picture Dali used a meticulous technique whic

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In 1936, Spain was being torn apart by civil war. Dali and Gala had to do without their retreat to Part Lligat. Instead they travelled around Europe, and spent some time living in Italy.

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Among the masterpieces Dali painted in his later period, Tuna Fishing occupy the most significant places. Dali was later quoted about this painting that he was trying to represent the notion of a finite rather than infinite universe, underscoring the idea "that all the cosmos and all the universe converge in one point, which, in the present case, is the Tuna-Fishing.

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The Great Masturbator, 1929 by Salvador Dali

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The Great Masturbator, 1929 by Salvador Dali

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The Great Masturbator is a kind of psychic snapshot of where the 25-year-old Dali was at the time he painted this large work, The central image is the widely-seen rock at Cullero, on Cape Creus in Spain, which Dali likened to a head with its nose pressed to the ground.

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Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon, 1941 by Salvador Dali

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Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon, 1941 by Salvador Dali

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A spectre full of irony, where an amorphous, soft face appears, supported by crutches, which Dali considered his self-portrait, with a pedestal that bears the inscription of the title of the work and, above, a slice of fried bacon, a symbol of organic matter and of the everyday nature of his breakfasts in New York's Saint Regis Hotel.

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Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1937 by Salvador Dali

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Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1937 by Salvador Dali

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In Le Sommeil (Sleep), Dali recreated the kind of large, soft head and virtually non-existent body that had featured so often in his paintings around 1929. In this case, however, the face is certainly not a self-portrait. Sleep and dreams are par excellence the realm of the unconscious, and consequently of special interest to psychoanalyists and Surrealists.

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Persistence of Memory, 1931 by Salvador Dali

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Persistence of Memory, 1931 by Salvador Dali

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The faithful transcription of dreams has always played a major role in Dali's paintings. The painter had studied psycho-analysis and the works of Freud before joining the Surrealists. To dream is easy for him because of his Mediterranean heritage.

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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí.