{"id":429641,"date":"2026-10-16T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429641\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:00:17","slug":"a-1936-dali-masterpiece-is-coming-to-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429641\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1936 Dal\u00ed masterpiece is coming to St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salvador Dal\u00ed painted Soft Construction with Boiled Beans in 1936, a typically unsettling oil depicting a monstrous figure tearing itself apart on a barren landscape.<\/p>\n

The Surrealist master subtitled the work Premonition of Civil War, and indeed the bloody Spanish Civil War erupted only a few months after the painting was unveiled.<\/p>\n

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Salvador Dal\u00ed, \u201cSoft Contrsuction With Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936 oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection.<\/p>\n

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will go on view at the Dal\u00ed Museum in St. Petersburg Oct. 29.<\/p>\n

\u201cSoft Construction with Boiled Beans is one of the most powerful paintings Dal\u00ed ever made, and seeing it alongside our collection gives visitors the chance to understand it within the full arc of his career,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Cohen, the museum\u2019s Director of Curatorial Affairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, you can see where this painting came from, and how the anxieties it captured continued to shape his work for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the website dalipaintings.com, studies for the work, dating to 1934, have been discovered, and that the artist \u201cmay have changed the name of the painting after the war in a manner of proving this prophetic quality, though it is not entirely certain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dal\u00ed himself described Soft Construction with Boiled Beans\u00a0as \u201ca vast human body breaking out into monstrous excrescences of arms and legs tearing at one another in a delirium of autostrangulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The allegorical painting, which measures 39.4 x 39 inches, has\u00a0drawn comparisons to Guernica, Pablo Picasso\u2019s well-known, wall-sized antiwar masterpiece.<\/p>\n

The Dal\u00ed Museum is creating an installation within its permanent collection galleries, featuring black-and-white imagery and historical commentary exploring the political and social divisions that preceded the Spanish Civil War.<\/p>\n

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans\u00a0will be on view through April 19, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salvador Dal\u00ed painted Soft Construction with Boiled Beans in 1936, a typically unsettling oil depicting a monstrous figure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-429641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}