The Lugubrious Game

The Lugubrious Game
Artist	Salvador Dalí
Year	1929
Type	oil and collage on cardboard
Dimensions	44.4 cm × 30.3 cm (17.5 in × 11.9 in)
Location	private collection

The Lugubrious Game (or The Mournful Game) is a part oil painting and part collage on cardboard artwork created by Salvador Dalí in 1929. It displays references to feces (in the form of a man wearing soiled underpants), sexual desire, castration and alludes to the "safety" of masturbation. The name of the painting was given by poet, Paul Éluard.

History

In 1929, several Surrealists including Paul Éluard and his wife Gala were visiting Dalí at his home in Spain. Upon seeing the Surrealist style painting, they were intrigued by it, which led to Dalí becoming an official member of the movement.

Salvador Dalí

List of works

Selected paintings	Landscape Near Figueras (1910) Vilabertran (1913) Cabaret Scene (1922) Portrait of my father (1925) The Basket of Bread (1926) Apparatus and Hand (1927) The Lugubrious Game (1929) The First Days of Spring (1929) The Great Masturbator (1929) The Persistence of Memory (1931) The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934) Morphological Echo (1934–36) 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) 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) A Logician Devil (1951) Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) Galatea of the Spheres (1952) The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–54) 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) Tuna Fishing (1966–67) The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–70) La Toile Daligram (1972) The Swallow's Tail (1983)

Other artworks	Lobster Telephone (1936) Mae West Lips Sofa (1937) Rainy Taxi (1938)

Writings	Un Chien Andalou (1929, co-author) L'Age d'Or (1930, co-author) Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937) Libretto for Bacchanale (1939) The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942, autobiography)

Films	Un Chien Andalou (1929) L'Age d'Or (1930) Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)

Animated films	Destino (1946, completed 2003)

Logos	Chupa Chups

Opera	Être Dieu (1985)

Costumes	costumes for García Lorca's play Mariana Pineda (1927)

Related articles	Castle of Púbol Dali crater Dalí Theatre and Museum Dalí Universe Espace Dalí Gala Dalí Salvador Dalí Museum Salvador Dalí (film) Little Ashes Paranoiac-critical method

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