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The Sick Child by Salvador Dalí

The Sick Child

Salvador Dalí · 1921

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Artist
Salvador Dalí
Date
1921
Location
Salvador Dalí Museum
ART MOVEMENTS
Surrealism
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THE ARTIST

Salvador Dalí

1904–1989 · Spain

Dalí painted melting clocks and dream logic with the precision of an Old Master — then became the most famous eccentric alive.

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Beyond Dalí and Surrealism: works from the same years.

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray Same era · 1900s–1930s Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray Piet Mondrian · 1921 · Art Institute of Chicago Interior with painter Same era · 1900s–1930s Interior with painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1921 · Buchheim Museum of Imagination The Lineman Same era · 1900s–1930s The Lineman Ivan Puni · 1927 · Art Institute of Chicago Bull's Head Same era · 1900s–1930s Bull's Head Mikhail Larionov · 1913 · Tretyakov Gallery American Gothic Same era · 1900s–1930s American Gothic Okada Saburosuke · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago The Fiddler Same era · 1900s–1930s The Fiddler Norman Rockwell · 1921 · Brandywine Museum of Art Woman on Rose Divan Same era · 1900s–1930s Woman on Rose Divan Henri Matisse · 1921 · Art Institute of Chicago The Firmament Above the Temple Same era · 1900s–1930s The Firmament Above the Temple Paul Klee · 1922 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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