'Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape' by Salvador Dali, Vatican Museums, the Vatican
Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali painted this work in 1977 when he was in his seventies, and the soft monster shown on the left recalls the monster he painted 40 years earlier in 'The Persistence of Memory'. This work, however, has a much more religious tone, and was created after Dali embraced spirituality in the later part of his life. It was gifted by King Juan Carlos of Spain to the Vatican in 1980, and is today shown in the Vatican Museums' Gallery of Modern Art.
'Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape' by Salvador Dali, Vatican Museums, the Vatican
Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali painted this work in 1977 when he was in his seventies, and the soft monster shown on the left recalls the monster he painted 40 years earlier in 'The Persistence of Memory'. This work, however, has a much more religious tone, and was created after Dali embraced spirituality in the later part of his life. It was gifted by King Juan Carlos of Spain to the Vatican in 1980, and is today shown in the Vatican Museums' Gallery of Modern Art.