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The Great Masturbator (1929) is a painting by Salvador Dalí executed during the surrealist epoch, and is currently displayed at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Apr 28, 2022 · The Great Masturbator (1929) painting by Salvador Dalí was never sold and kept by the artist in his collection until it was donated and is now housed at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía art museum in Madrid, Spain.
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- Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in the Spanish town called Figueres. He had two other siblings, a brother, and a sister, but his brother di...
- The Great Masturbator (1929) is an oil on canvas painted by the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. It was painted in the same year that the artist al...
- Salvador Dalí painted The Great Masturbator (1929) during a time when he met his future wife Gala, who was described as his muse. This painting is...
- The Persistence of Memory. The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 artwork by Salvador Dali that is well recognized as a masterpiece of Surrealism. The artwork was first presented at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932 and has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 1934, when it was given to the museum by an unidentified donor.
- Metamorphosis of Narcissus. Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) is an oil-on-canvas work by Dali that shows his rendition of the Greek fable of Narcissus.
- Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. The painting’s full title is Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, although a shorter variant title is Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee.
- Lobster Telephone. The Lobster Telephone (also known as the Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a Surrealist artefact designed by Salvador Dali in 1936 for the English poet and surrealist art collector Edward James (1907–1984).
This painting, the quintessential symbol par excellence of his sexual obsessions, has even been commented upon by the artist himself in the best known of his literary works, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, published in 1942.
Series - 11 artworks. View all 32 items. Salvador Dali lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of Spanish-Catalan Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Spanish, Catalan
- May 11, 1904
- Figueres, Spain
- January 23, 1989
Collection. Contemplando al gran masturbador (Looking at the Great Masturbator) Salvador Dalí. Figueras, Girona, Spain, 1904 - 1989. Date: 1981. Technique: Oil on copper. Dimensions: 35 x 27 cm. Category: Painting. Entry date: 1990. Register number: AS11174. Salvador Dalí Bequest, 1990. Artworks in the Collection. Cadavre exquis (Exquisite Cadaver)
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Mar 10, 2019 · 1929. Technique: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 110 x 150 cm. Signature: Signed and dated lower left corner: Salvador Dalí -29-. Location: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
