La Gare de Perpignan [SEP] collection
La Gare de Perpignan
La Gare de Perpignan ("Perpignan Train Station") is a 1965 large-scale oil on canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, on display in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
The Perpignan railway station held special significance for Dalí, who had proclaimed it to be the "Center of the Universe" after experiencing a vision of cosmogonic ecstasy there in 1963.
Description.
The sacrifice of the son is imaged in the form of Christ on the Cross, with his crown
Gare de Perpignan
Perpignan is the railway station serving the city of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, southern France. Part of the station was decorated in the style of Salvador Dalí, for whom the place held special significance, having proclaimed it to be the "Centre of the Universe" after experiencing a vision of cosmogonic ecstasy there in 1963 and made a painting called "La Gare de Perpignan" in 1965.
The station opened in 1858 and is located on the Narbonne–Portbou railway, LGV Perpignan