Salvador Dalí's most famous paintings
The top 3 according to 12 votes from people: Christ of Saint John of the Cross · Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening · Swans Reflecting Elephants. (Updated Mar 2, 2025.)
Melting clocks, Christ seen from above, elephants on endless legs: the Dalí works everyone recognises and where to see them.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 17
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Christ of Saint John of the Cross
1951. The crucifixion seen from above; at Kelvingrove, Glasgow.
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
1944. Tigers leaping out of a fish; at the Thyssen Museum, Madrid.
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Swans Reflecting Elephants
1937. One of his best-known double images.
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The Sacrament of the Last Supper
1955. The Last Supper in a glass room; at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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Metamorphosis of Narcissus
1937. The double image of Narcissus and the egg-hand; at Tate Modern.
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony
1946. The spider-legged elephants; in Brussels.
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The Persistence of Memory
1931. The melting clocks; in MoMA, New York.
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
1936. A body tearing itself apart; at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Galatea of the Spheres
1952. Gala's face built from floating spheres; in Figueres.
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The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
1954. His 1931 clocks repainted for the atomic age.
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The Face of War
1940. A face full of skulls painted as the Spanish war ended.
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Leda Atomica
1949. Gala as Leda, with nothing touching anything.
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The Burning Giraffe
1937. Drawers in the body and a burning giraffe; in Basel.
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The Elephants
1948. Elephants on impossible legs under a red sky.
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Mae West's Face which May Be Used as a Surrealist Apartment
1934-1935. The origin of the famous lips sofa; in Chicago.
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Figure at a Window
1925. His sister Ana María looking at the sea in Cadaqués; at the Reina Sofía.
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Basket of Bread
1945. A hyperrealist still life; at the Theatre-Museum in Figueres.
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Comments (1)
El Cristo de San Juan de la Cruz en Glasgow impresiona muchísimo más en persona, fui sin expectativas y me quedé un buen rato