Inventory

Titles of paintings by Salvador Dalí:

  • Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone
  • Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello
  • Premature Ossification of a Railroad Station
  • Rock and Infuriated Horse Sleeping Under the Sea
  • Fifty Abstract Paintings Which as Seen From Two Yards Change Into Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen From Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger
  • Necrophiliac Fountain Flowing From a Grand Piano
  • Dalí at the Age of Six When He Thought He Was a Girl Lifting the Skin of the Water to See the Dog Sleeping in the Shade of the Sea
  • Skull With Its Lyric Appendage Leaning on a Bedside Table Which Should Have the Exact Temperature of a Cardinal’s Nest
  • Bread on the Head of the Prodigal Son
  • Barber Saddened by the Persistence of Good Weather (The Anguished Barber)
  • The Man With the Head of Blue Hortensias
  • A Soft Watch Put in the Appropriate Place to Cause a Young Ephebe to Die and Be Resuscitated by Excess of Satisfaction
  • Two Pieces of Bread Expressing the Sentiment of Love
  • Mysterious Mouth Appearing in the Back of My Nurse
  • Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
  • Invisible Afghan With the Apparition on the Beach of the Face of Garcia Lorca in the Form of a Fruit Dish With Three Figs
  • Giant Flying Mocca Cup With an Inexplicable Five Metre Appendage
  • Dalí’s Hand Drawing Back the Golden Fleece in the Form of a Cloud to Show Gala, Completely Nude, the Dawn, Very, Very Far Away Behind the Sun
  • Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano
  • My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Flesh Becoming Stairs, Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture

He wrote, “It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”