Lobster Telephone

Aphrodisiac Telephone, 1936, painted plaster, plastic, and metal, 7 x 12 x 6 3/8 in

Edward James

Not to be Reproduced (A Portrait of Edward James), Ren Magritte, 1937

Photograph of Edward James, Man Ray, 1937

I do not understand why, when I ask for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, I am never served a cooked telephone. I do not understand why champagne is always chilled and why, on the other hand, telephones, which are habitually so frightfully warm and disagreeably sticky to the touch, are not also put in silver buckets with crushed ice around them.
-- Salvador Dal

Lobsters & Women

Lobster Dress, Elsa Schiarparelli and Salvador Dal, 1937

Dali and Gala on the set of Dream of Venus, Georges Platt Lynes, 1939

Dream of Venus

Faade of the Dream of Venus Pavilion, Ric Saal, 1939

Dream of Venus, Murray Korman, 1939

Telephones

Enigma of Hitler, oil on canvas, 1939, 51.2 x 79.3 cm, Madrid, Museu Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofa

Designed by Elliot Gorham