Salvador Dali - continued

Dalí produced over 1,500 paintings in his career, in addition to producing illustrations for books, lithographs, designs for theater sets and costumes, a great number of drawings, dozens of sculptures, and various other projects. Below is a chronological sample of important and representative work.

• 1922 Cabaret Scene and Night Walking Dreams
• 1923 Self Portrait with L'Humanite and Cubist Self Portrait with La Publicitat
• 1924 Still Life (Syphon and Bottle of Rum) (for García Lorca) and Portrait of Luis Buñuel
• 1925 Large Harlequin and Small Bottle of Rum, and a series of fine portraits of his sister Anna Maria, most notably Figure At a Window
• 1926 Basket of Bread and Girl from Figueres
• 1927 Composition With Three Figures (Neo-Cubist Academy) and Honey is Sweeter Than Blood (his first important Surrealist work)
• 1929 The Great Masturbator and The First Days of Spring
• 1931 The Persistence of Memory (his most famous work), The Old Age of William Tell, and William Tell and Gradiva
• 1932 The Spectre of Sex Appeal, Birth of Liquid Desires, Anthropomorphic Bread, and Fried Eggs on the Plate without the Plate. Invisible Man (begun 1929) completed (although not to Dalí's own satisfaction).
• 1933 Retrospective Bust of a Woman (mixed media sculpture collage) and Portrait of Gala With Two Lamb Chops Balanced on Her Sholder
• 1936 Autumn Cannibalism and Soft Construction with Beans (Premonition of Civil War).
• 1937 Metamorphosis of Narcissus and The Burning Giraffe
• 1940 The Face of War
• 1943 The Poetry of America and Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
• 1944 Galarina and Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening
• 1945, Basket of Bread-- Rather Death Than Shame and Fountain of Milk Flowing Uselessly on Three Shoes This year Dalí collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on a dream sequence to the film Spellbound, to mutual dissatisfaction.
• 1946 The Temptations of St. Anthony
• 1949 Leda Atomica and Madonna of Port Lligat. Dalí returned to Catalonia this year.
• 1951 Christ of St. John of the Cross and Exploding Rephaelesque Head.
• 1954 Corpus Hypercubus Crucifixion and Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity
• 1955 The Sacrement of the Last Supper
• 1956 Still Life Moving Fast
• 1958 Meditative Rose
• 1959 The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
• 1960 Dalí began work on the Teatro-Museo Gala Salvador Dalí
• 1967 Tuna Fishing
• 1970 The Hallucinogenic Toreador
• 1976 Gala Contemplating Mediterranean Sea
• 1977 Dalí Lifting the Skin of the Mediterranean Sea to Show Gala the Birth of Venus (stereoscopical pair of paintings)
• 1983 Dalí completed his final painting, The Swallow's Tail.

The two largest collections of Dalí's work are the Salvador Dalí museum in St. Petersburg, Florida and the Teatro Museo Gala Salvador Dalí in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Quotations

• "The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."
• "At the age of six years I wanted to be a chef. At the age of seven I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambitions have continued to grow at the same rate ever since."
• "Every morning when I awake, the greatests of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dalí."