Untitled. Telephone transformed into a lobster

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Figueres, 2019. Worsinger Photo / Museum of the City of New York. 37.67.8
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Figueres, 2019. Worsinger Photo / Museum of the City of New York. 37.67.8

Cat. no. OE 30

Untitled. Telephone transformed into a lobster

Unique Original Work

Description

Date:
1936
Technique:
Assemblage
Dimensions:
Unknown
Location:
Unknown

Dalí described this object-sculpture as a telephone transformed into lobster, and included it in the installation he conceived as a window display for the Bonwit Teller department store in New York in 1936. In an article in the daily New York Journal-American for December 20 of that year some details of this work are described. This is the first known identification of a work by Dalí that can be very plausibly related in both concept and composition with the Aphrodisiac Telephone the artist created in 1938.

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