Salvador Dalì ,Family of marsupial Centaurs, lithography, 50x65 cm, 1988

Lithograph by the surrealist master Salvador Dali, which proposes the subject of the unique work created in 1940.

Dali believed that "Family of Marsupial Centaurs" evoked his return to a classic style, with a more precise technique and greater balance. He inspired the painting to Dr. Otto Rank, a psychoanalyst who theorized that neurosis could be trauma at birth. Believing he had pre-birth memories, Dali was very interested in this doctor's theories.
Female centaurs have openings in their stomach from which human babies wait to be freed. In "The Secret Life," Dalí wrote that he envied centaurs because:

"children can go out and return to their mother's womb heaven."

The seascape is the same as in "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee" in 1944. A view of Cadaques, even though Dali lived in the United States, painted the landscape of his native land. One of the forms that often returns in Dali's works is the configuration of the back of a mare, he saw in it a resemblance to a bunch of grapes, and to emphasize this he had one held in the hand of one of the centaur.

The work was made in 1988.

Watermark on sheet BFK RIVES France infinity

Work signed in plate at bottom right and numbered DCCIV/MM at bottom left.