Accession Number
1981/2.110.2

Title
Baignoire à tornade liquide

Artist(s)
Salvador Dali

Artist Nationality
Spanish (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1975

Medium & Support
drypoint etching, lithograph, screenprint and collage on paper

Dimensions
30 5/16 in x 21 15/16 in (76.99 cm x 55.72 cm)

Credit Line
Anonymous Gift

Subject matter
This work was part of Salvador Dalí's 1975 Imaginations and Objects of the Future portfolio. It contained ten prints with an introductory text by the artist that discussed the project's focus on new technologies' ability to create an alternate universe, especially through holograms.
Like others in this series, this work combines some of Dalí's familiar Surrealist imagery with those of new technologies—here the helicopter. The technology is both titllating with the nude figures and dangerous illustrated by the imagery of tornadoes and the combination of water and electronics.

Physical Description
In this print, there are number of components. In the center, there are two blue tornadoes with black and yellow helicopter-hats. On the left, the tornado has a drawing of a nude woman within it, in yellow. Between these, there is a collaged image of a object that resembles a screen. To the right, there is a melting bathtub made of faces with a yellow-outlined figure. Below the bathtub is a series of line drawings in black with text. The print is signed (l.r.) and numbered (l.l.) in pencil.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Additional Object Classification(s)
Mixed Media

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Surrealism
Surrealist
bathtubs
face
faces (animal components)
helicopters
modern and contemporary art
tornadoes