Salvador Dalí works on his experiments with the sea urchin holding a swanfeather or a dried flower in its mouth and moving backwards and forewards thus marking the blackened paper. These experiments he is carrying out at his studio in his Spanish home at Portlligat, Cadaqués, on the Costa Brava 1957.
In his studio at Portlligat, Spain, in 1957, Salvador Dalí conducts an experiment with sea urchins. Wearing a soft, pointed cap and an ornate shirt, he contemplates a specimen in his hand. For the experiment, the creature would hold a swan feather or dried flower in its mouth to make marks on the wet, blackened paper seen on the table. The dramatically lit composition also includes another urchin and a distinctive lamp with a spiny base topped by a large, fluffy, white sphere.
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