Giraffe on Fire (1936-1937)

Many people believe that Dali produced his best work during the Thirties. After The Persistence of Memory, he went on to create a series of extraordinary paintings that demonstrate the extent of his imagination.

In Giraffe on Fire, the huge, looming figures of two women dominate a stark blue landscape, the half-opened drawers running down their bodies may represent the murkier parts of the mind, which Dali believed could be explored through Freud's technique of psychoanalysis.