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The Great Masturbator
The Great Masturbator (1929) is a painting by Salvador Dalí executed during the surrealist epoch, and is currently displayed at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Description.
The center of the painting has a distorted human face in profile looking downwards, based on the shape of a natural rock formation at Cap de Creus along the sea-shore of Catalonia. A similar profile is seen in Dalí's more famous painting of two years later, "The Persistence of Memory".
London.
- Karl Blossfeldt publishes a collection of close-up photographs of plants and living things as "Urformen der Kunst: Photographische Pflanzenbilder" in Berlin.
Awards.
- Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – "W A Holman, KC"
- Laura Knight made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Works.
- David Bomberg – "Toledo from the Alcazar"
- Emily Carr – "The Indian Church"
- Salvador Dalí
- "The Great Masturbator"