Artwork Details
Description
“The double image (and example of which might be the image of a horse that is at the same time the image of a women) may be extended, continuing the paranoiac process, with the existence of another obsessive idea being sufficient for the emergence of a third image and thus in succession until the concurrence of a number of images which would be limited only by the extent of the mind’s paranoiac capacity.”
- L’Âne pourri. Salvador Dalí, 1930.
In this composition the woman’s head and torso transforms into the body of the horse. The horse’s mane intermingles with the hair of the woman and her legs become so faintly rendered they disappear. The horse’s legs lose their flesh and muscle to become merely fossilized bones. As with the drawing, "Surrealist Figure of Landscape of Port Lligat," the foreground is strewn with the same configurations of bones. In the distance are the small figures of Dalí and his father.
Exhibition History:
2023, St. Petersburg, The Dalí Museum, "Where Ideas Come from: Dalí's Drawings"