Gala and the Angelus of Millet Immediately Preceding the Arrival of the Conic Anamorphoses

Here Dalí presented many unlikely associations. A copy of Jean-François Millet’s famous Angelus, above the doorway; in the background, Dalí’s wife, Gala, smiles at a figure resembling Vladimir Lenin; a bust on the wall ledge may be poet André Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement; Russian writer Maxim Gorky holds the door, wearing on his head a lobster, one of Dalí’s favourite props. This illogical scene is characteristic of Surrealism, which often juxtaposes unrelated objects and dream imagery.