Salvador Dalí Spanish, 1904–1989 · 1937

Inventions of the Monsters

Salvador Dalí Spanish, 1904–1989

Inventions of the Monsters

1937

Salvador Dalí's 'Invention of the Monsters' (1937), painted on the eve of the Second World War, was begun in Semmering in Austria shortly after Freud visited Dalí. Lovers, hybrid beasts, and a crumbling Spanish landscape populate one of Dalí's most apocalyptic canvases. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.

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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago