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object, made from the conjunction of items not normally associated with each other, resulting in something both playful and menacing. DalĂ­ believed that such objects could reveal the secret desires of the unconscious. Lobsters and telephones had strong sexual connotations for DalĂ­. The telephone
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of 1938, Dalí contributed an entry under 'TÉLÉPHONE APHRODISIAQUE' which is accompanied by a small drawing of a telephone, its receiver replaced by a lobster surrounded by flies. A similar drawing is printed in
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to execute a series of drawings based on his impressions of New York. One drawing was given the caption 'NEW YORK DREAM - MAN FINDS LOBSTER IN PLACE OF PHONE'. In the
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DalĂ­ produced four examples of the color version of his lobster telephone, currently displayed as part of the four following collections:
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DalĂ­ Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors
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DalĂ­ also produced an off-white version of his telephone. The six examples are displayed as following:
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Salvador DalĂ­'s "Dream of Venus" : the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
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in the collection of Museum of Communication Frankfurt. Accessed 14-02-2020.
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Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time
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A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano
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in the collection of Tate Liverpool, London. Accessed 27-01-2010.
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in a restaurant, he was never presented with a boiled telephone.
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
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Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity
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The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table
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appears in certain paintings of the late 1930s such as
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Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
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Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire
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Lobster Telephone (song)

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Salvador DalĂ­
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The Secret Life of Salvador DalĂ­
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telephone
lobster
plaster
Surrealist
Tate
1939 New York World's Fair
Dream of Venus
Horst P. Horst
George Platt Lynes
food and sex
American Weekly

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Museum fĂĽr Kommunikation Frankfurt
Germany
National Gallery of Australia
Tate Modern

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