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The Salvador Dalí Museum is the permanent home of the world's most comprehensive collection of the renowned Spanish artist's work. Compiled by the A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Morse over a 45-year period, it is celebrated for its 96 oil paintings.
With oils spanning from 1917 through 1970, the collection provides an excellent overview of Dalí's major themes and symbols. Characterized by its diversity, it includes the Impressionist and Cubist styles of his early period, abstract work from his transition to Surrealism, the famous surrealist canvases for which he is best known, and examples of his preoccupation with religion and science during his classic period.
In addition to the 96 oil paintings, the collection includes over 100 watercolors and drawings, 1,300 graphics, photographs, sculptures and objects d'art, and an extensive archival library. Periodic rotations of the collection and special exhibitions allow museum goers to view new work on repeat visits.
Dalí's own museum-the Teatre-Museu Dalí-is located in Figueres, Spain.
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View of Cadaques with the Shadow of Mount Pani (1917)
Salvador Dalí embraced his Mediterranean homeland, painting it repeatedly throughout his career. Dalí was only thirteen years old ... More » |
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Self Portrait (Figueres) (1921)
This self-portrait was painted in 1921, one of the most tumultuous years in Dali's life. Earlier that year,...
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Still Life: Fish with Red Bowl (1923-24)
Dalí probably painted Still Life: Fish with Red Bowl during his brief suspension from Madrid's Academy of Fine Arts for supposedly inciting ... More » |
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Still Life: Sandia (1924)
Still Life: Sandia reflects Dalí’s brief foray into Cubism, the art movement founded by Picasso and Braque in 1907. Cubist artists sought to ... More » |
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The Basket of Bread  (1926)
One of the most popular works in the Dalí Museum Collection is The Basket of Bread. This work was completed in 1926 at the end of... More »
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Apparatus and Hand (1927)
The year Dalí painted Apparatus and Hand (1927) was a turning point for the young Catalan. He was 23 years old and had been expelled from ...
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Big Thumb, Beach, Moon and Decaying Bird (1928)
Dalí's "Transitional Period" lasted only one year, 1928. During this year, the young artist reacted against the traditional styles he ... More »
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The First Days of Spring (1929)
When Dalí painted this work in the spring of 1929, his mind was in turmoil. He was finally creating paintings that were the culmination of all his ... More »
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The Average Bureaucrat (1930)
As a Surrealist, Dalí had an aversion to bureaucrats. In addition, his father, who expelled Dalí from the family home, was a notary - a respected ... More » |
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Eggs on a Plate Without a Plate (1932)
This painting was inspired by what Dalí referred to as an "intra-uterine memory." According to Dalí, he remembered his existence in the womb, "as ... More »
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The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934)
Painted in 1934, The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft which Can be Used as a Table is one of Dalí's most precise "miniatures." The artist described ... More » |
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The Weaning of Furniture - Nutrition (1934)
This work was one of Dalí's favorite paintings in the Morse collection, and on several occasions he requested that the Morses hand-carry the ... More » |
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Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy (The Three Ages) (1940)
Here, Dalí used double images to create the allegorical faces of Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy. Glimpses of Port Lligat are seen ... More »
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Daddy Longlegs of the Evening-Hope! (1940)
Daddy Longlegs of the Evening-Hope! was the first painting the Morses purchased for their collection in 1942. It was a Dalínian prophecy of the ...
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Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)
This work is an example of the instantaneous paranoiac-critical hallucinations Dalí received on the edge of sleep. The slightest movement or ... More »
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