Salvador Dalí painting titled La Gare de Perpignan (Perpignan Railway Station). Painted in 1965, the work is a large oil-on-canvas that is held in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany. Dalí referred to the railway station in Perpignan, France, as the "cosmic center of the universe". The painting is rich in surrealist and religious symbolism, including a figure of Christ on the cross (based on Dalí's earlier work Christ of Saint John of the Cross) and figures representing various aspects of life and death. The bright, radiating beams of light converging on the center of the image emphasize the station's significance as a pivotal, almost spiritual, location in the artist's mind.

Salvador Dalí
"Le Gare de Perpignan" (1965)
oil-on-canvas | 295 x 406 cm (117 in x 160 in).
Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany.
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A redraw of art! The sec one I did it on my phone.

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This work, which was discovered in what was likely an unfinished state in the artist's studio upon his death, is in the grand tradition of portraits painted by Van Dyck and Velázquez. Though the sitter's identity is unknowable-as is the setting due to the blurring of boundaries between the interior and exterior-the real subject of the canvas seems to be the model's striped dress, rendered in lavish detail, attesting to Manet's keen interest in women's fashion. Between 2015 and 2018, the Guggenheim Museum conducted extensive art historical research and scientific analysis, which culminated in a major treatment project that restored the painting's dry, sketchy finish. The dress, in particular, is now closer to its original blue-violet hues, which had been masked for many years by two varnish layers applied to the canvas at different moments after Manet's death. #art #painting

Woman in Striped Dress ca. 1877-80
Edouard Manet
Oil on canvas
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