Dream Caused Flight Of A Bee by Salvador Dali Statue

Painting the Subconscious: Dali's Paranoiac-Critical Method in Three Dimensions

This Dali Dream Caused by a Bee statue is based on a painting Salvador Dali created of someone else's dream. In 1944, working from an account his wife Gala gave him, Dali painted the instant a sleeping mind turns a single sound into an entire, violent narrative. The full title of the source work, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, states the premise outright: everything in the scene happens in the space of one second, the second before a bee's buzz becomes a bayonet and wakes the dreamer.

Dali painted the original in oil on a wood panel in 1944, while living in the United States during the Second World War. It now hangs in the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. This Dali Dream Caused by a Bee statue translates that single frozen second, the leaping tiger, the bursting fish, the floating pomegranate, into a sculptural object that holds the same tension in physical form.

• Measures 8.25 in H x 5.25 in L x 1.5 in D. Weighs 0.4 lbs with detachable metal stand.
• Material: Hand-painted resin with detailed color accents.
• Includes full-color artwork card and multilingual description card.
• Part of the collectible Parastone Mouseion 3D Collection.
• Part number: SD09.
• Licensed adaptation created with approval from the Dali Foundation.