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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening | Salvador Dalí | 1944

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening | Salvador Dalí | 1944

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"Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" is a painting from 1944 by the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. It encapsulates Dalí's fascination with dreams and subconscious imagery, featuring a sleeping woman floating above a rock. Beside her, a pomegranate floats in the air, from which a bee emerges, symbolizing the sting of awakening. In the background, two tigers leap towards the woman, their bodies extending from the mouth of a larger fish, all against a calm sea and a cliff. This work is a prime example of Dalí's exploration of dream-induced fears and desires, capturing the precise moment before the sleeper awakens, supposedly inspired by the sting of a bee.

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  • Title Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening (Sueño causado por el vuelo de una abeja alrededor de una granada un segundo antes de despertar)
  • Artist Salvador Dalí
  • Year of creation 1944 (one of the few pictures Dalí painted while living in the United States, 1941-1948; depicts his wife and muse Gala asleep on a floating rock above a calm sea, with a bee, pomegranate, and two droplets of water suspended next to her — in the dream prompted by the bee's buzzing, an exploding pomegranate releases a fish from whose mouth two tigers and a bayonet emerge to wake her. Dalí explained in 1962 that this was his attempt to put into image Freud's theory of the typical dream caused by an instantaneous external stimulus)
  • Technique/Medium 51 x 41 cm
  • Original dimensions 51 x 41 cm
  • Collection/Museum Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (acquired for the collection of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1997)

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