This unmatted print reproduces Salvador Dalí's Inventions of the Monsters, painted in 1937. The original is in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting has an ominous mood and is full of threats of danger. A menacing fire burns in the distance. In the foreground, a sibylline figure holds an hourglass and a butterfly, both symbols of the inevitability of death. Dalí and his wife and muse, Gala, sit next to this figure.
Dalí painted it while his native Catalonia was caught up in the Spanish Civil War. The work reflects his anxiety over a world without a safe haven, a world that had allowed for the invention of monsters.
- Artwork
- Inventions of the Monsters, 1937, by Salvador Dalí
- Type
- Print reproduction, unmatted
- Image size
- 7.75 x 12 in.
- Full poster size
- 11 x 14 in.
- Material
- Premium cardstock
- Collection
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Copyright
- © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022