Sunday Dalí: Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero, 1947

While a good example of Dalí’s “nuclear mystical” period, this painting also reveals a more Classical style. With typical irony, Dalí wrote that “the two worst things that can happen to an ex-Surrealist today are, firstly, to become a mystic and secondly, to know how to draw. Both these forms of vigour have lately befallen me at one and the same time”.