Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity
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Artist | Salvador Dalí |
Year | 1954 (1954) |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Movement | Symbolic surrealism |
Dimensions | 40.5 cm × 30.5 cm (15.95 in × 12 in) |
Location | Paris |
Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity is a 1954 painting by Salvador Dalí.[1] During the 1950s, Dalí painted many of his subjects as composed of rhinoceros horns. Here, the young virgin's buttocks consist of two converging horns and two horns float beneath; "as the horns simultaneously comprise and threaten to sodomise the callipygian figure, she is effectively (auto) sodomised by her own constitution."[2]
Dalí's inspiration for the image appears to have come from Vermeer, one of a handful of artists regarded by Dalí as masters. Specifically, Vermeer's The Lacemaker seems to have been the galvanising element, with its convergent curves which focus on the subject's fingers and so to the penetration point of her needle - which as Dalí has pointed out is merely implied and not actually painted.
The painting, formerly in the collection of The Playboy Mansion (Playboy Enterprises sold the painting in London in 2003 for £1.35 million),[3] recalls his depiction of his sister Ana María in ``Young Woman at a Window" (1925), and has therefore been read by some critics as a nasty jab at his sister, punishing her for publishing a biography on Dalí that presented a quite negative point of view;[4] it has also been interpreted as a painting of Gala, though in fact the figure is based on a photograph from a 1930s sex magazine.[5]
In 1958, Dalí wrote, "Paradoxically, this painting, which has an erotic appearance, is the most chaste of all."[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity, 1954 - Salvador Dali - WikiArt.org". WikiArt. 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ Ades, Dawn (2004). Reynolds, Kelly; Jeffett, William (eds.). Persistence and Memory: New Critical Perspectives on Dalí at the Centennial. St. Petersburg, Fla: Salvador Dali Museum. pp. 378–379. ISBN 9788845234170. OCLC 84544077. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ "Black-and-White Night". The New York Observer. 17 February 2003. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ Bradbury, Kirsten (2001). Dali (Essential Art). Bath: Paragon Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 9781405423182. OL 43410542M. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ Descharnes, Robert (2002). Dali, l'héritage infernal (in French). Paris: Ramsay/La Marge. p. 72. ISBN 9782841146277. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ Morse, Albert Reynolds; Dalí, Salvador (1957). Dali: a Study of His Life and Work. New York Graphic Society. p. 81. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
External links
- Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity Archived 2010-02-25 at the Wayback Machine in dali-gallery.com
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- 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)
- The Seven Lively Arts (1944)
- 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 Seven Lively Arts (1957)
- 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)
- Lobster Telephone (1936)
- Lobster dress (1937)
- Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
- Champagne Standard Lamps (1938)
- Rainy Taxi (1938)
- A Logician Devil (1951)
- Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937)
- The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942)
- Dali's Mustache (1954) (with Philippe Halsman)
- Être Dieu (1985)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- L'Age d'Or (1930)
- Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)
- Destino (1946, completed 2003)
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- 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)
- "Salvador Dalí" (song)
- 2919 Dali (asteroid)
- Dali crater
- Salvador Dalí Desert
- Dalí cross