Cat. no. OE
30

Untitled. Telephone transformed into a lobster

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  • Installation

    Installation

    1936

    Works of which the installation is composed

    Works of which the installation is composed

    1936

    Works of which the installation is composed

    Works of which the installation is composed

    1936

    Works of which the installation is composed

    Works of which the installation is composed

    1936

Untitled. Telephone transformed into a lobster

Cat. no. OE 30

Untitled. Telephone transformed into a lobster

1936

Description

Unique Original Work
Date:
1936
Technique:
Assemblage
Dimensions:
Unknown
Location:
Unknown
Description:
Dalí described this object-sculpture as a telephone transformed into lobster, and included it in the installation he conceived as a window display for the Bonwit Teller department store in New York in 1936. In an article in the daily New York Journal-American for December 20 of that year some details of this work are described. This is the first known identification of a work by Dalí that can be very plausibly related in both concept and composition with the Aphrodisiac Telephone the artist created in 1938.