The Surrealist Piano is one of Dalí’s major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal wooden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Dalí often blurred the lines between the real and surreal worlds, taking an inert and lifeless object, and, with a wave of his magic surrealist wand, created an entirely new fantasmagorical happening.
- Materials
- Bronze
- Size
- 23 3/5 × 9 3/10 × 15 1/5 in | 60 × 23.5 × 38.5 cm
- Rarity
- Medium
- Signature
- Engraved
- Certificate of authenticity
- Included (issued by gallery)
- Frame
- Not included
- Manufacturer
- The Dalí Universe
Surrealist Piano, Conceived in 1954-first cast in 1984
The Surrealist Piano is one of Dalí’s major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal wooden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Dalí often blurred the lines between the real and surreal worlds, taking an inert and lifeless object, and, with a wave of his magic surrealist wand, created an entirely new fantasmagorical happening.
- Materials
- Bronze
- Size
- 23 3/5 × 9 3/10 × 15 1/5 in | 60 × 23.5 × 38.5 cm
- Rarity
- Medium
- Signature
- Engraved
- Certificate of authenticity
- Included (issued by gallery)
- Frame
- Not included
- Manufacturer
- The Dalí Universe

