‘Smoke billows from a pipe-smoking dream character as he walks on a ferocious crocodile which is a symbol of the earth’, one of 23 Untitled drawings from ‘Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel’ (The comical Dreams of Pantagruel) by Salvador Dali 1973
“‘Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel’ was a 16th century novel by Francois Rabelais, originally illustrated with grotesque woodcut figures, partly reminding of the imagery of Hieronymus Bosch.”
In 1973 Dali interpreted these 16th century dreams…
