# Salvador Dalí's most famous paintings

Melting clocks, Christ seen from above, elephants on endless legs: the Dalí works everyone recognises and where to see them.

- 12 votes · 17 items
- Mar 2, 2025 · butaca_lenta
- https://even.best/en/l/2957/salvador-dali-s-most-famous-paintings

## Top 17

1. **Christ of Saint John of the Cross** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1951. The crucifixion seen from above; at Kelvingrove, Glasgow.
2. **Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1944. Tigers leaping out of a fish; at the Thyssen Museum, Madrid.
3. **Swans Reflecting Elephants** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1937. One of his best-known double images.
4. **The Sacrament of the Last Supper** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1955. The Last Supper in a glass room; at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
5. **Metamorphosis of Narcissus** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1937. The double image of Narcissus and the egg-hand; at Tate Modern.
6. **The Temptation of Saint Anthony** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1946. The spider-legged elephants; in Brussels.
7. **The Persistence of Memory** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1931. The melting clocks; in MoMA, New York.
8. **Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1936. A body tearing itself apart; at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
9. **Galatea of the Spheres** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1952. Gala's face built from floating spheres; in Figueres.
10. **The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1954. His 1931 clocks repainted for the atomic age.
11. **The Face of War** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1940. A face full of skulls painted as the Spanish war ended.
12. **Leda Atomica** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1949. Gala as Leda, with nothing touching anything.
13. **The Burning Giraffe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1937. Drawers in the body and a burning giraffe; in Basel.
14. **The Elephants** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1948. Elephants on impossible legs under a red sky.
15. **Mae West's Face which May Be Used as a Surrealist Apartment** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1934-1935. The origin of the famous lips sofa; in Chicago.
16. **Figure at a Window** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1925. His sister Ana María looking at the sea in Cadaqués; at the Reina Sofía.
17. **Basket of Bread** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1945. A hyperrealist still life; at the Theatre-Museum in Figueres.

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