Solitude Paranoiaque Critique, 1935

Salvador Dalí

Painted at Port Lligat. For this desolate, rocky landscape, Dali chose an Edwardian-type car, half-smothered by flowering plants, amalgamated with the cliff, both of which share a large aperture. Then, on the left, in paranoic style, the car image is faithfully repeated in silhouette, hollowed-out in the rocks. The aperture of the right-hand re-appears on the left as a separate rock slab, suspended like a cut-out. The picture's optical discomfort springs from the contradiction between the projection of the cliffs to the left, and the emptiness in the right-hand rocks. (http://uniquecarsandparts.com/farewells_salvador_dali.htm)
7.6 x 10 x 23 cm
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