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Salvador Dalí Inaugural Goose Flesh 1928
© Salvador Dalí, FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, DACS, London 2007

Salvador Dalí.
Inaugural Goose Flesh 1928
© Salvador Dalí, FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ , DACS, London 2007
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Salvador Dalí.
Forgotten Horizon 1936
Tate © Salvador Dalí, FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, DACS, London 2007

Salvador Dalí.
Forgotten Horizon 1936
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Room Guide


Unless otherwise stated, all works by Salvador Dalí 1904–1989

  • Room 1: Madrid
    • Brothel 1922
      Ink wash on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      The Drunkard 1922
      Ink wash on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Madrid Night Scene 1922
      Ink wash and watercolour on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Summer Night 1922
      Ink wash on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Madrid Suburb c.1922–3
      Ink wash on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Portrait of Luis Buñuel 1924
      Oil on canvas
      Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

      Portrait of my Father 1925
      Oil on canvas
      Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

      Departure (Homage to Fox News) 1926
      Oil on panel
      Private collection

      Abstract Composition 1928
      Oil on canvas
      Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

      Feminine Nude (final state) 1928
      Oil, cork and strings on canvas
      Private collection

      Symbiotic Woman-Animal 1928
      Oil and sand on canvas
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Unsatisfied Desires 1928
      Oil, sand and sea-shells on cardboard
      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Fractional Gift of Jan and Mitsuko Shrem, Clos Pegase Winery Collection

      Untitled 1928
      Oil on canvas with collage
      Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

  • Room 2: Anti-Art
    • Penya segats 1926
      Oil on panel
      Private collection

      Apparatus and Hand 1927
      Oil on panel
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      Inaugural Goose Flesh 1928
      Oil on cardboard
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      The Accommodations of Desire 1929
      Oil and cut and pasted printed paper on cardboard
      Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998

      The First Days of Spring 1929
      Oil and collage on panel
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      Illumined Pleasures 1929
      Oil and collage on board
      The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

      The Bleeding Roses 1930
      Oil on canvas
      Colección Caixa Galicia, La Coruña

      The Font 1930
      Oil and collage on panel
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      La Main (Les Remords de conscience) 1930
      Oil and collage on canvas
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

  • Room 3: Un Chien andalou 1929
    • Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 and Luis Buñuel 1900–1983
      Un Chien andalou 1929
      Film, 16 min.
      Contemporary Films, London

  • Room 4: Persistence
    • The Average Bureaucrat 1930
      Oil on canvas
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      The Invisible Man 1930
      Oil on canvas
      Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

      The Persistence of Memory 1931
      Oil on canvas
      The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Given anonymously

      Remorse or Sphinx Embedded in the Sand 1931
      Oil on canvas
      Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Gift of John F. Wolfram

      The Sense of Speed 1931
      Oil on canvas
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Solitude 1931
      Oil on canvas
      Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. Purchased through the gift of Henry and Walter Keney

      Untitled (Woman Sleeping in a Landscape) 1931
      Oil on canvas
      Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NY)

      Shades of Night Descending 1932
      Oil on canvas
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

  • Room 5: Scenarios
    • The Marriage of Buster Keaton 1925
      Collage and ink on paper
      Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid

      Book of Varicose Veins 1926
      Collage on paper
      Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid

      Letter to Lorca with collage of shoes 1926
      Ink and collage on paper
      Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid

      Birth of the Child Jesus 1927
      Collage on paper
      Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid

      The Hand 1927
      Indian ink on paper
      Private collection

      Poem of Little Things October 1927
      Ink on paper
      Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid

      Letter to Lorca dated 18/20 January 1927
      Ink and collage on paper
      Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid

      Ants 1929
      Gouache, ink and collage
      H. Amigorena Collection, Paris

      Letter to Luis Buñuel detailing ideas for the film L’Age d’or 1930
      Ink on paper
      Filmoteca Española, Madrid. Fondo Buñuel

      Script for L’Age d’or 1930
      Ink on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Frontispiece for L’amour et la memoire 1931
      Photomontage
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Cinq minutes à propos du surréalisme c.1931–2
      Ink on paper
      Film scenario
      Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Archive, Edinburgh.

      Babaouo 1932
      Wood and painted glass
      Facsimile of the original work
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Design for a poster for Babaouo, c’est un film surréaliste 1932
      Mixed media on cardboard
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Script for Babaouo 1932
      Facsimile of two pages from a manuscript (original ink on paper)
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Gala and the Angelus of Millet Preceding the Imminent Arrival of the Conical Anamorphoses 1933
      Oil on wood
      National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1975

      The Spectre of Sex Appeal 1934
      Oil on panel
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Sentimental Colloquy 1948
      Oil on canvas
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      Luis Buñuel 1900–1983
      Eating Sea Urchins 1930
      Film, 2 min.
      Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona

      Luis Buñuel 1900–1983
      Letter to Dalí with ideas for Un Chien andalou, 22 March 1929
      Typescript on paper
      Pere Vehí Archive, Cadaques

  • Room 6: L’Age d’or 1930
    • L’Age d’or 1930
      Film, 63 min.
      British Film Institute

  • Room 7: Metamorphosis
    • Partial Hallucination. Six Apparitions of Lenin on a Grand Piano 1931
      Oil on canvas
      Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne / Centre de création industrielle

      Retrospective Bust of a Woman 1933
      Porcelain display bust with ears of corn, strip of cardboard used as a necklace, gilded sponge, and couple from Millet’s Angelus with wheelbarrow and two calamai
      with quills
      Private collection. Courtesy Galerie Natalie Seroussi

      Moment of Transition 1934
      Oil on canvas
      Collection Viktor and Marianne Langen

      Morning Ossification of the Cypress 1934
      Oil on canvas
      Collection Mr and Mrs Gilbert Kaplan, New York

      Autumnal Cannibalism 1936
      Oil on canvas
      Tate. Purchased 1975

      Forgotten Horizon 1936
      Oil on wood
      Tate. Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1968

      Lobster Telephone 1936
      Plastic, painted plaster and mixed media
      Tate. Purchased 1981

      Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937
      Oil on canvas
      Tate. Purchased 1979

      Sleep 1937
      Oil on canvas
      Private collection

      Mountain Lake 1938
      Oil on canvas
      Tate. Purchased 1975

      The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image 1938
      Oil on canvas
      Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Bequest of A. Conger Goodyear, 1966

      Shirley Temple, the Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in her Time 1939
      Wash, pastel and collage on cardboard
      Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

  • Room 8: Spellbound 1945
    • Dream Sequence for the film Spellbound directed by Alfred Hitchcock 1945
      Film, 35mm, 2 min. 40 sec.
      Buena Vista Television

  • Room 9: Scenarios
    • Study for Singularities. Surrealist Furniture c.1934–5
      Pencil on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Gangsterism and Goofy Visions of New York 1935
      Graphite pencil and ink on paper
      Courtesy of Menil Collection, Houston

      Script for Moontide 1935
      Ink on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Manuscript for The Surrealist Mysteries of New York 1935
      Ink on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Studies for the Scenario for Les Mystères surréalistes de New York 1935
      Pencil, charcoal and Indian ink on paper
      Fundació Suñol, Barcelona

      Paranonia c.1935
      Oil on canvas
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      Singularities c.1935
      Oil and collage on board
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Messenger in a Palladian Landscape 1936
      Indian ink on paper
      Private collection

      Harpo Marx 1937
      Pencil and ink on card
      Philadelphia Museum of Art

      The Surrealist Piano 1937
      Charcoal, watercolour and pastel on paper
      Mugrabi Collection

      Design for the film with the Marx Brothers (verso of ‘La Vie erotique’) 1937
      Pencil on paper
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      Design for the film with the Marx Brothers (Dîner dans le désert éclairé par les giraffes en feu) 1937
      Charcoal and gouache on paper
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      Film scenario for Giraffes on Horseback Salad 1937
      Ink on paper
      Bibliothèque Kandinsky/Centre de recherche et de documentation. Musée national d’art moderne, Paris

      Set design for the film with the Marx Brothers 1937
      Pencil, sienna ink and Indian ink on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Freud’s Perverse Polymorph (Bulgarian Child Eating a Rat) 1939
      Mixed media on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Café Scene. Drawing for the film Moontide 1941
      Pencil, wash and Indian ink on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Face of War. Drawing for the film Moontide 1941
      Pencil, wash and Indian ink on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Sewing Machine and Umbrellas. Drawing for the film Moontide c.1941
      Ink on canvas
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Window Display with Umbrella and Sewing Machine. Drawing for the film Moontide c.1941
      Pencil and Indian ink on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Set design for the film Spellbound c.1945
      Oil on Masonite
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Set design for the film Spellbound c.1945
      Oil on Masonite
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Set design for the film Spellbound c.1945
      Oil on Masonite
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Study for the Dream Sequence in Spellbound 1945
      Mixed media on paper
      Private collection

      Study for the Dream Sequence in Spellbound 1945
      Oil on panel
      Private collection

      Script for The Wheelbarrow of Flesh 1948
      Typescript on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

  • Room 10: Destino 1946
    • Morphological Echo 1934–6
      Oil on canvas
      Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St Petersburg, Florida

      Anthropomorphic Tower. Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Conté crayon on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Large Head of Greek God. Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Oil on Masonite
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Nude Torso on Building on Checkerboard. Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Oil and collage on Masonite
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Open Field with Ball in Centre and Mountains in Rear. Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Oil on Masonite
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino c.1946
      Mixed media on paper on Masonite
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Study for the Walt Disney Film Destino 1946
      Pen and ink on paper
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Study for the Walt Disney Film Destino 1946
      Pen and ink on paper
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Pen and ink on paper mounted on cardboard
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Pen, ink and watercolour on paper
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Pen, ink and watercolour on paper
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Pencil on tracing paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Pencil on tracing paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Pencil and ink on paper
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Watercolour on paper
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Watercolour on paper
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      Study for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Watercolour on paper on cardboard
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

      26 storyboard drawings for the Walt Disney film Destino 1946
      Pen and ink on paper
      Walt Disney Feature Animation and the Animation Research Library, Burbank, California

  • Room 11: Destino 1946
    • Destino 1946 (completed 2003)
      Animated film 7 min.
      Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank

  • Room 12: Paintings
    • Book Transforming itself into a Nude Woman 1940
      Oil on canvas
      Private collection, USA

      Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, a Second before Awakening 1944
      Oil on panel
      Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

      Melancholy, Atomic Uranic Idyll 1945
      Oil on canvas
      Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

      Portrait of Pablo Picasso in the Twenty-first Century 1947
      Oil on canvas
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Portrait of Colonel Jack Warner 1951
      Oil on canvas
      Courtesy of the Syracuse University Art Galleries

      Portrait of Laurence Olivier in the Role of Richard III 1955
      Oil on canvas
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Study for Rhinocerontic Portrait of Vermeer’s ‘Lacemaker’ 1955
      Oil on canvas
      FUNDACIÓ GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ, Figueres

      Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by her own Chastity 1954
      Oil on canvas
      Private collection

      Paranoiac-Critical Painting of Vermeer’s ‘Lacemaker’ 1954–5
      Oil on canvas on panel
      The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Anonymous Gift

  • Room 13: Impressions of Upper Mongolia 1975
    • Impressions de la Haute Mongolie – Hommage à Raymond Roussel 1975
      Film, 70 min.
      Polyphon Film-  und Fernsehgesellschaft mbH

  • Room 14: Chaos
    • Rhapsodie Moderne (Les Sept Arts) 1957
      Oil on canvas
      From the collection of Jake Shafran, London

      Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 and Philippe Halsman 1906-1979
      Chaos and Creation 1960
      Video recordings transferred to 16mm film, 16 min. 54 sec.
      Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres / Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona

      Andy Warhol 1928–1987
      Screen Test: Salvador Dalí (ST67) 1966
      16mm film, transferred to DVD, 4 min.
      Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

      Andy Warhol 1928–1987
      Screen Test: Salvador Dalí (ST68) 1966
      16mm film, transferred to DVD, 4 min.
      Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

      Salvador Dalí 1904-1989 and Philippe Halsman 1906 - 1979
      Dalí's Mustache: A Photographic Interview 1954
      Modern prints from negatives
      Halsman Archive, New York