After 73 years abroad and thanks to an exceptional loan arising from collaboration with the Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan), the Dalí Theatre-Museum hosts this key work in the painter’s career. With The Madonna of Portlligat (c. 1951), Dalí invites us to dream: a poetic and luminous response to the conflicts of the modern world.
The Madonna of Portlligat is a key work in the painter’s nuclear mystical stage, where he fuses art, science and spirituality, with Gala, his wife, at the centre. Considered a masterpiece by Salvador Dalí, it is an allegorical painting with powerful iconography and a striking composition. The work synthesizes his artistic evolution, from Surrealism to nuclear mysticism—a new stage in his career where he combines nuclear physics, religion, and a return to classicism to express his vision of the world.
The work is not only a synthesis of his evolution as a painter, but also offers us a gateway to his particular universe, where reality and dream, religion and science, weight and lightness coexist in absolute harmony.
