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 Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Supersurrealismen (den 29 september 2012 - den 27 januari 2013) Moderna Museet Malmö Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Internationell Surrealism (1998) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Salvador Dali (1973-1974) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Salvador Dali : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 26 december 1973 - 24 februari 1974The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995] Bibliography Dalí, Salvador, La conquête de l'irrationnel, 1935, ill. nr. 11. Soby, Dalí, 1941, s. 16 Dalí, Salvador, The secret life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York 1947, ill. (foto) s. 263. Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, 1959, s. 220, 223. Arts, vol. 35, jan 1961, ill. s. 53. Descharnes, Robert, The world of Salvador Dalí, Macmillan & Co Ltd, London 1962, s 222, ill. (färg) s. 162. Romare, Kristian, Salvador Dali om Wilhelm Tells gåta: Intervju med Salvador Dali av Kristian Romare i TV, Konstrevy, 1967. Salvador Dalí. The Work. The Man., Harry N: Abrams Inc. Publishers, New York 1984, ill. (färg) s. 136 Dalí, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York 1985, ill. nr. 28, s. 28. Alexandrian, L'art surréaliste, 1968 (Surrealist Art 1970, s. 104). Passeron, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, 1968, s. 141. Ooka, Dalí, 1968, ill. s. 95. Dalí, Salvador, Comment on devient Dalí, Editions Robert Laffont, Paris 1973, ill. s. 357. Ades, Dawn, Dalí, Thames and Hudson, London 1982, ill. nr. 70 Taube, Maria och Gedin, Marika, Hjärtats bilder, Stockholm 1993, s. 74-75, ill. s. 72-73. Finkelstein, Haim, Salvador Dalí's Art and Writing 1927-1942, Cambridge University Press, New York 1996, ill. nr. 42. Weyers, Frank, Salvador Dalí: Liv och verk (Köln 2000), s. 35.

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