The Elephants

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The Elephants

Artist	Salvador Dalí
Year	1948
Type	Oil on canvas
Location	Private collection

This article is about the Salvador Dali painting. For the Cote d'Ivoire national side known as "The Elephants", see Côte d'Ivoire national football team.

The Elephants (Spanish: Los Elefantes) is a 1948 painting by Salvador Dalí.^[1]

The Elephants continues Dalí's theme of using spider-legged Elephants, which had previously appeared in "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" and "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening".

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^ Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret. Salvador Dalí: 1904-1989. The paintings. Taschen, Aug 1, 2007. ISBN 3822838225.

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List of works

Selected paintings	Landscape Near Figueras (1910) Vilabertran (1913) Fiesta in Figueres (1914–16) Port of Cadaqués (Night) (1918–19) The Artist's Father at Llane Beach (1920) The Garden of Llaner (Cadaqués) (1920–21) Cabaret Scene (1922) Cubist Self-Portrait with "La Publicitat" (1923) Self-portrait with L'Humanitie (1923) Portrait of Luis Buñuel (1924) Siphon and Small Bottle of Rum (1924) Portrait of my father (1925) The Basket of Bread (1926) Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (1927) The Lugubrious Game (1929) The First Days of Spring (1929) The Great Masturbator (1929) The Persistence of Memory (1931) The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934) Morphological Echo (1934–36) Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus (1935) Autumn Cannibalism (1936) 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 Sublime Moment (1938) 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) Honey is Sweeter than Blood (1941) 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) Galarina (1944–45) Basket of Bread (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 (1952–54) 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) Tuna Fishing (1966–67) The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–70) La Toile Daligram (1972) The Swallow's Tail (1983)

Other artworks	Lobster Telephone (1936) Mae West Lips Sofa (1937) Rainy Taxi (1938)

Writings	Un Chien Andalou (1929, co-author) L'Age d'Or (1930, co-author) Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937) Libretto for Bacchanale (1939) The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942, autobiography)

Films	Un Chien Andalou (1929) L'Age d'Or (1930) Spellbound (1945, dream sequence) Impressions of Upper Mongolia (1975, narration)

Animated films	Destino (1946, completed 2003)

Logos	Chupa Chups

Opera	Être Dieu (1985)

Costumes	costumes for García Lorca's play Mariana Pineda (1927)

Novels	Hidden Faces (1944)

Related articles	Castle of Púbol Dalí Universe Espace Dalí Dalí Theatre and Museum Salvador Dalí Museum Salvador Dalí (film) Little Ashes Gala Dalí Paranoiac-critical method

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