dali christ saint john cross Dimensions (inches):79 x 44" 5 million dollars in 2007

5 million dollars in 2007 when it went on sale at the To the Virgins

bent over the table and viewed from above

" it was painted in oil on canvas in 1572

A year later he painted the same landscape again

dali christ saint john cross Dimensions (inches):79 x 44" 5 million dollars in 2007Surrealist painting of religious inspiration, painted in 1951. At the time Dal created this work, he was already a man quite close to the Catholic faith; nevertheless, he found several detractors who did not understand the modernist character and the original perspective of the work. The central figure is based on a small drawing that Saint John of the Cross had made in the 16th century.