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L’Énigme de Guillaume Tell
L’Énigme de Guillaume Tell
L’Énigme de Guillaume Tell
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

L’Énigme de Guillaume Tell

Artist (Spanien, 1904 - 1989)
Alternate Title
  • The Enigma of Wilhelm Tell
  • Wilhelm Tells gåta
Date1933
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått: 201,5 × 346,5 cm Ram: 237 × 382 × 6,5 cm
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchase 1967 (The Museum of Our Wishes)
Countries
On view
Stockholm
Object NumberNM 6069
About the artworkA huge painting, and a very conventional work of art, which is a contradiction to a surrealist - a rebel against art and sense. A dream landscape and a monstrous creature; unstable, fragile, in the midst of his vigour. The deformed body is propped up with crutches and the watch - time - is melting. Dalí painted his image of the subconscious, basing himself on Sigmund Freud's sexually permeated dream theory. The freedom-fighter Tell is also a political figure, with face and cap culled from the communist leader Lenin. The work is also a rebellion against his own father. But, above all, Dalí claimed that the artist's task was to paint in riddles…
Selected exhibition history Salvador Dali (1973-1974) Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Supersurrealismen (den 29 september 2012 - den 27 januari 2013) Moderna Museet Malmö Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Internationell Surrealism (1998) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Salvador Dali : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 26 december 1973 - 24 februari 1974Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]