Salavador Salvador Dalí poses with some objects he has used in the study of the "oursin" (sea urchin) to help him in his efforts to obtain a painting done by a sea urchin using a swans's feather or a dry flower in the urchin's mouth. The two display boards show sea urchin fossiles. Portlligat, Cadaqués 1957.

With a characteristically intense, wide-eyed expression, Salvador Dalí poses in Portlligat, Cadaqués, in 1957. A sea urchin shell is perched on his head like a small hat, while he holds another shell and a swan's feather, a taut string stretched between his hands. The objects are part of his study of the "oursin" (sea urchin), an effort to create a painting made by the creature itself. The large display boards in the foreground, showing detailed illustrations of sea urchin fossils, aided him in his research for this surrealist project.

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