Lobster Telephone

Salvador Dalí's 'Lobster Telephone' (also known as 'Aphrodisiac Telephone', 1936) is a fully functional black Bakelite rotary telephone topped with a plaster red lobster in place of the handset. Commissioned by Dalí's patron, the British poet Edward James, roughly half a dozen examples were assembled; editions are today held by Tate Modern in London, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others.

Exhibition Venue

Tate Modern

London, United Kingdom