'Untitled' Sculpture, Dalí's 'Christ on the Channels' (Crucifixion)*, The Dalí Theatre-Museum

'Untitled' Sculpture, Dalí's 'Christ on the Channels' (Crucifixion)*, The Dalí Theatre-Museum

* This unique and significant sculpture, untitled and undated, from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, shows Christ over channels (a 'Corpus Supra Canalem'), and without any trauma or signs of torture. Although, the head is bent down as in his 'Christ of Saint John of the Cross', 1951, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow; the rest of the figure and composition is closer to the 'Corpus Hypercubus', 1954, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.


Salvador Dalí, Christ of Saint John of the Cross, 1951,
Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Saint_John_of_the_Cross

Salvador Dalí, Corpus Hypercubus, 1954, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/210009107

"Dalí fused his interests in Catholicism, mathematics, and science to create this new interpretation of an oft-depicted subject. Levitating before a hypercube - a geometric, multi-dimensional form-Christ has an almost athletic physique that bears no signs of torture. The artist's wife, Gala, poses as a devotional figure, witnessing Christ's spiritual triumph over corporeal harm."

Salvador Dalí, Corpus Hypercubus, 1954, wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_(Corpus_Hypercubus)

--------------

The Dalí Theatre-Museum, Figueres, Spain
http://www.salvador-dali.org