| Dali Paintings 1904 - 1989 Spain, Surrealism |
| Premonition of Civil War, 1936 |
| Oil on canvas, 100x74 cm |
| Walter Arensberg Collection |
| City Landscapes |
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DAS030 |
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36x36 inches |
| price: |
410 USD |
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| painting: |
DAS030B |
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| size II: |
40x40 inches |
| price: |
450 USD |
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OIL PAINTING : Premonition of Civil War, 1936 |
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In Premonition of Civil War depicted is a grimacing dismembered figure symbolic of the Spanish state in civil war, alternately grasping upward at itself and holding itself down underfoot, a relationship morbidly prescient of Escher's later Drawing Hands (1948). The painting resides at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Premonition of Civil War, which was painted in 1936, is used to show the struggle of war that can sometimes be both self-fulfilling and self-mutilating at the same time. Dali was openly against war, and used this painting to show it.
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