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Happy 106th Birthday Salvador Dalí! The Old Age of William Tell (La vieillesse de Guillaume Tell), 1931, oil on canvas. That’s right, bonus Dalí this week in honor of his birthday. Enjoy! This continues the William Tell series of paintings, the first of which I wrote about this past Sunday. The image of the lion is again present, signifying sexual desire. The figures at the top-right with their hands on there faces are the shameful apparitions of Adam and Eve after expulsion from the garden of Eden. Two other figures make love at the top-left while Tell, with the breasts of a woman, is serviced behind a sheet by two other women. At the very top-right, a dionysusian couple dance in the nude and in the very bottom-right a dying rose symbolizes Dalí’s dying love for his father. The proceeds from the sale of this painting allowed Dalí to purchase a fisherman’s hut in a bay near Cadaqués at Port Lligat. The surrounding terrain and shore is the landscape which Dalí most frequently painted.

Happy 106th Birthday Salvador Dalí!

The Old Age of William Tell (La vieillesse de Guillaume Tell), 1931, oil on canvas.

That’s right, bonus Dalí this week in honor of his birthday. Enjoy!

This continues the William Tell series of paintings, the first of which I wrote about this past Sunday. The image of the lion is again present, signifying sexual desire. The figures at the top-right with their hands on there faces are the shameful apparitions of Adam and Eve after expulsion from the garden of Eden. Two other figures make love at the top-left while Tell, with the breasts of a woman, is serviced behind a sheet by two other women. At the very top-right, a dionysusian couple dance in the nude and in the very bottom-right a dying rose symbolizes Dalí’s dying love for his father.

The proceeds from the sale of this painting allowed Dalí to purchase a fisherman’s hut in a bay near Cadaqués at Port Lligat. The surrounding terrain and shore is the landscape which Dalí most frequently painted.