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The Enigma of William Tell, 1933
Oil on canvas
79 3/8 X 57 1/2 inches (201.9x146 cm)
Moderna Musset, Stockholm

The Enigma of William Tell is the climactic painting in the William Tell series. In it the anxiety inspired by the revolt against his father became interwoven with Dali's paranoiac-critical interpretation of the legend, leading him to perceive in the father-son relationship the threat not only of castration but of annihilation. The William Tell story became 'the eternal theme of the father sacrificing his son; Saturn devouring his sons with his own jaws'. William Tell - the father figure - is depicted with the face of Lenin, cradling the infant Dali in his arms. Interpreting the apple on the son's head as 'the symbol of the passionate cannibalistic ambivalence' - and as the target of 'paternal vengeance' - Dali makes the father's intentions explicit by placing a lamb cutlet
rather than an apple on the baby's head, showing that the father wants to eat the child. This threat of extermination is amplified by the tiny cradle positioned perilously near the father's gigantic foot.
It is also represented by the crutches which, in Dali's iconography, symbolize death and resurrection. One supports a phallic-shaped buttock, the other the flaccid peak of Lenin's cap. These elements echo the sexual anxieties explored in Dali's painting at the end of the previous decade. They also allude to the cause of the hiatus with his father, Dali's relationship with Gala. The depiction of Lenin in this way provoked the first of Dali's clashes with Andre Breton who was infuriated by this 'anti-revolutionary act' and called for Dali's expulsion from the Surrealist group. This painting narrowly escaped an attempt to deface it by Breton, Peret and Tanguy when it was hung, just out of reach, at the Salon des Independants at the Grand Palais in February 1934. The work survived but Dali's relations with Breton were soured from this point.

 

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