Artist, Artwork title, year
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Salvador DALÍ
Spanish 1904–89, worked in United States 1940–48
Anthropomorphic bread 1932
oil on canvas
24.0 x 16.5 cm
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
Permanent loan from the Town Hall of Figueres
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació
Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009
Artist, Artwork title, year
IMAGE BANK
Salvador DALÍ (designer)
Spanish 1904–89, worked in United States 1940–48
Retrospective bust of a woman 1933, reconstructed 1970
painted bronze, feathers, plastic, tin
74.5 x 67.0 x 28.0 cm
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009
Dalí and Food

There is nothing quite like the taste of a freshly opened sea urchin. Sweet, but salty; rich, yet ascetic; unctuous caramel cut through with saline astringency. Soft delicate flesh protected by a threatening spiny carapace. Its visual and sensory contradictions sum up perfectly the paradox of Catalonia. Both Salvador Dalí and his father loved eating sea urchins, freshly caught in the waters of the Mediterranean off the small fishing village of Cadaqués. Beneath the sea urchin’s spiny exterior lies an inner exoskeleton that is a perfectly symmetrical, segmented ovoid. This symmetry fascinated Dalí, who adapted its form to many art works. Food, in fact, runs throughout Dalí’s life and career, and appears in this exhibition in many forms – bread, fish, watermelons, milk, eggs, pomegranates, all have symbolic meanings that are unique to the Dalinian universe.

ABOVE: Salvador DALÍ
Spanish 1904–89, worked in United States 1940–48
Eucharistic still life 1952
oil on canvas
54.6 x 87.0 cm
The Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida
Worldwide Rights: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009.
In the USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2009