Basket of Bread
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| Artist | Salvador Dalí |
| Year | 1945 |
| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 33 cm × 38 cm (13 in × 15 in) |
| Location | Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres |
Basket of Bread or Basket of Bread-Rather Death Than Shame is an oil painting by Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, from 1945. The painting depicts a heel of a loaf bread in a basket, sitting near the edge of a table.
Progression and comparison to Dalí's other versions of the subject
Dalí used bread in many of his paintings, and was quoted as saying:
- "Bread has always been one of the oldest subjects of
At 22, Dalí spent four months on the 1926 painting The Basket of Bread, of which he said: "by the power of its density, the fascination of its immobility, creates the mystical, paroxysmic feeling of a situation beyond our ordinary notion of the real. We are at the borderline of dematerialization of matter by the sole power of the mind."[3]
The loaf of bread, painted and completed in
In the catalog of his exhibition at Bignou Gallery, New York in late 1945, Dalí's entry for the portrait Galarina draws attention to how Gala Dalí's crossed arms resemble the basket and her naked breast resembles the bread, and how Gala has become his bread basket.[5]
Political context
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Dalí wrote in the Bignou Gallery of New York catalogue that he painted Basket of Bread in two months, when "the most staggering and sensational episodes of contemporary history took place" and finished "one day before the end of the war".[6]
The painting's subtitle, Rather Death than Shame, takes on special significance during this time period. The basket is situated on the edge of the uncovered table, against a starkly black backdrop, an omen to its own sacrificial destruction.[6]
The painting was also said by Dalí to have been painted the week the
Marshall Plan
Basket of Bread was used for the European Recovery Program, better known as the
Popularity and current location
In the 1940s, William Nichols, managing editor of
The painting resides in Figueres Teatre-Museu Dalí, containing the broadest range of works of Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), managed by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.[8]
See also
References
- ISBN 0-8109-0830-1.
- ^ a b Leith, A (2002-10-06). "How Dali transformed dough into a surreal slice of life". The Independent. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-85566-143-1.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-679-40061-5.[dead link]
- ISBN 978-84-8478-714-3.
- ^ a b c Pine, J. "Breaking Dalinian Bread: On Consuming the Anthropomorphic, Performative, Ferocious, and Eucharistic Loaves of Salvador Dalí". Aesthetes and Eaters - Food and the Arts. University of Rochester, NY. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
- ^ "The Marshall Plan (Public Law 472)". Washington, DC: United States National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved 2011-03-09Act of April 3, 1948 European Recovery Act
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "Figueres Teatre-Musuí". Retrieved 2011-03-10.
External links
- Basket of Bread at Virtual Dali.com
- The Basket of Bread at Dalí Foundation's catalogue raisonné