Salvador Dalí · 1936
Lobster Telephone
Salvador Dalí
Lobster Telephone
1936
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.
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