The Accommodations of Desire

Painting by Salvador Dalí (1929)

The Accommodations of Desire

Artist| Salvador Dalí
Year| 1929
Medium| Collage
Dimensions| 22.2 cm (8.7 in) × 34.9 cm (13.7 in)
Location| Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession No.| 1999.363.16
Identifiers| The Met object ID: 490036

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The Accommodations of Desire is a 1929 surrealist oil painting and mixed media collage on board by Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

## History

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Dalí was inspired to create the piece after a walk with his future wife Gala Dalí, who was at the time married to fellow surrealist Paul Éluard, with whom Dalí was having an affair. The painting purportedly represents Dalí's anxiety over the situation, and what the future would hold for him. The painting also mythologizes Dali's relationship with his father.[1]

The painted work consists primarily of seven large pebbles, each with a different symbol that Dalí believed would come to pass as a result of the affair.

The piece uses pasted-on cutouts from a children's book, whose visual style bears a striking resemblance to the aesthetic of the painting itself.[2]

## See also

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* List of works by Salvador Dalí

## References

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1. ^ Edwards, Steve; Wood, Paul (2004). Art of the Avant-gardes. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300102305.
2. ^ "The Accommodations of Desire". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-06-15.

## External links

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* "Salvador Dalí: The Accommodations of Desire (1999.363.16) - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History". metmuseum.org.
* "Surrealism Movement, Artists and Major Works". The Art Story.

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List of works

Paintings|

* List of works
* Landscape Near Figueras (1910)
* Vilabertran (1913)
* Cabaret Scene (1922)
* Portrait of My Father (1925)
* Young Woman at a Window (1925)
* The Basket of Bread (1926)
* Apparatus and Hand (1927)
* The Lugubrious Game (1929)
* The First Days of Spring (1929)
* The Accommodations of Desire (1929)
* The Great Masturbator (1929)
* The Invisible Man (1929–1932)
* The Persistence of Memory (1931)
* The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934)
* Morphological Echo (1934–1936)
* A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano (1936)
* Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936, 1937)
* Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936)
* The Burning Giraffe (1937)
* Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937)
* Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)
* Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
* The Enigma of Hitler (1939)
* Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939)
* The Face of War (1940)
* Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)
* Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943)
* Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944)
* Basket of Bread (1945)
* The Apotheosis of Homer (1945)
* The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)
* The Elephants (1948)
* Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949)
* Leda Atomica (1949)
* The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949)
* Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951)
* Galatea of the Spheres (1952)
* The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–1954)
* The Colossus of Rhodes (1954)
* Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)
* Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954)
* The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955)
* Living Still Life (1956)
* The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59)
* The Ecumenical Council (1959–60)
* Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963)
* La Gare de Perpignan (1965)
* Tuna Fishing (1966–67)
* The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–1970)
* La Toile Daligram (1972)
* Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (1972–1973)
* Lincoln in Dalivision (1977)
* The Swallow's Tail (1983)

Painting series|

* The Seven Lively Arts (1944; 1956)

Other artworks|

* Lobster Telephone (1936)
* Lobster dress (1937)
* Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
* Champagne Standard Lamps (1938)
* Rainy Taxi (1938)
* A Logician Devil (1951)
* Nieuw Amsterdam (1974)
* Salvador Dali's Tarot (1985)

Writings|

* Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937)
* The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942)
* Dali's Mustache (1954) (with Philippe Halsman)
* Être Dieu (1985)

Films|

* Un Chien Andalou (1929)
* L'Age d'Or (1930)
* Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)
* Destino (1946, completed 2003)

Set design
and costumes|

* Mariana Pineda (1927 production)

Museums|

* Dalí Theatre and Museum (Dalí·Jewels)
* Gala Dalí Castle House-Museum
* Salvador Dalí House Museum
* Salvador Dalí Museum
* Dalí Paris
* Dalí Universe
* Morohashi Museum of Modern Art

Related|

* Gala Dalí (wife)
* Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation
* Paranoiac-critical method
* Salvador Dalí and dance
* Chupa Chups
* Dalí Atomicus (1948 photograph)
* Salvador Dalí (1966 film)
* The Death of Salvador Dali (2005 film)
* Little Ashes (2008 film)
* Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
* Dalíland (2022 film)
* Daaaaaalí! (2023 film)
* "Salvador Dalí" (song)
* 2919 Dali (asteroid)
* Dali crater
* Portlligat (village)
* Salvador Dalí Desert
* Dalí cross

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