The Madonna of Port Lligat

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The Madonna of Port Lligat

Artist	Salvador Dalí
Year	1949
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	48.9 cm × 37.5 cm (19+1⁄4 in × 14+3⁄4 in)
Location	Marquette University, Milwaukee

The Madonna of Port Lligat is a pair of paintings by Salvador Dalí. The first was created in 1949, measuring 49 x 37.5 centimetres (19.3 x 14.8 in), and is housed in the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Dalí presented it to Pope Pius XII in an audience for approval, which was granted. Dalí created a second painting in 1950 with the same title and same themes, with various poses and details changed, measuring 275.3 x 209.8 centimetres (108.4 x 82.6 in). The 1950 Madonna is exhibited at the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan.^[1]

Description

The paintings depict a seated Madonna (posed by Dalí's wife, Gala) with the infant Christ on her lap. Both figures have rectangular holes cut into their torsos, suggestive of their transcendent status. In the 1950 version Christ has bread at the center of his figure. They are posed in a landscape, with features of the coast of Portlligat, Catalonia, in the background. Several surrealist details are included: nails, fish, seashells, and an egg. The 1949 Madonna has a sea urchin; the 1950 Madonna has a rhinoceros and figures of angels, also posed by Gala.

Cultural references

A poem and book based on the painting, The Virgin of Port Lligat, by Fray Angelico Chavez, was selected as one of the best books of 1959 by the Catholic Library Association.

In Larry Niven's 1973 novel Protector, one of the main characters has this painting on his spacesuit.

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List of works
Paintings	List of works Landscape Near Figueras (1910) Vilabertran (1913) Cabaret Scene (1922) Portrait of My Father (1925) Young Woman at a Window (1925) The Basket of Bread (1926) Apparatus and Hand (1927) The Lugubrious Game (1929) The First Days of Spring (1929) The Accommodations of Desire (1929) The Great Masturbator (1929) The Invisible Man (1929–1932) The Persistence of Memory (1931) The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934) Morphological Echo (1934–1936) A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano (1936) Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936, 1937) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) The Burning Giraffe (1937) Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938) The Enigma of Hitler (1939) Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939) The Face of War (1940) Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943) Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) Basket of Bread (1945) The Apotheosis of Homer (1945) The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) The Elephants (1948) Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949) Leda Atomica (1949) The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949) Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) Galatea of the Spheres (1952) The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–1954) The Colossus of Rhodes (1954) Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954) Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954) The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955) Living Still Life (1956) The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59) The Ecumenical Council (1959–60) Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963) La Gare de Perpignan (1965) Tuna Fishing (1966–67) The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–1970) La Toile Daligram (1972) Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (1972–1973) Lincoln in Dalivision (1977) The Swallow's Tail (1983)
Painting series	The Seven Lively Arts (1944; 1956)
Other artworks	Lobster Telephone (1936) Lobster dress (1937) Mae West Lips Sofa (1937) Champagne Standard Lamps (1938) Rainy Taxi (1938) A Logician Devil (1951)
Writings	Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937) The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942) Dali's Mustache (1954) (with Philippe Halsman) Être Dieu (1985)
Films	Un Chien Andalou (1929) L'Age d'Or (1930) Spellbound (1945, dream sequence) Destino (1946, completed 2003)
Set design and costumes	Mariana Pineda (1927 production)
Museums	Dalí Theatre and Museum (Dalí·Jewels) Gala Dalí Castle House-Museum Salvador Dalí House Museum Salvador Dalí Museum Dalí Paris Dalí Universe Morohashi Museum of Modern Art
Related	Gala Dalí (wife) Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Paranoiac-critical method Salvador Dalí and dance Chupa Chups Dalí Atomicus (1948 photograph) Salvador Dalí (1966 film) The Death of Salvador Dali (2005 film) Little Ashes (2008 film) Midnight in Paris (2011 film) Dalíland (2022 film) Daaaaaalí! (2023 film) "Salvador Dalí" (song) 2919 Dali (asteroid) Dali crater Portlligat (village) Salvador Dalí Desert Dalí cross

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