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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/2440/2447-28.jpg
Title	Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of her Own Chastity.
Creator	Dali, Salvador (Spanish painter and printmaker, 1904-1989)
Date	1954
Cultural Context	Spanish European Western European
Style/Period	Surrealist Modern (styles and periods) Modernist
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Avant-garde Fantasy Symbols Symbolism (artistic concept) Imagery Sex Sexuality Phallic Erotica Eroticism Pinups Figurative art Figures (representations) Back views Side views Three-quarter views Oblique views Women Virgins Nudes (representations) Nudity Shoes (footwear) Footwear Horn (animal material) Clouds Sky Walls Architectural elements Openings (architectural elements) Railings (balustrades) Shadows Signatures (names)
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Fantasy Symbols Sex Lust Erotica Women Nudes Backs (Anatomy) Buttocks Breasts Shoes Footwear Horns (Animal) Clouds Walls Architectural elements Structural elements Railings Shadows Artists' signatures
Description	"Dali prided himself on being the world's greatest ever painter of the female posterior." (Caption); "It was probably early in 1950 that Emmanuel Looten, a little-known Flemish poet, had made Dali the unexpected and 'gelatinous' gift of a rhinoceros horn. 'This horn will save my life!' Dali exclaimed to Gala, without quite knowing why. […] It had to be significant! The rhinoceros was added to his list of obsessive icons in two paintings done the same year: the second version of The Madonna of Port Lligat and Rhinoceros in Disintegration. Then, on 5 July 1952, Dali felt that his spontaneous prediction to Gala on receiving the gift was coming true when suddenly he perceived that the painting of Christ on which he was then working was made up of … rhino horns! There could be no doubt about it. […] Now that the revelation had burst upon him, he began to perceive rhinoceros horns in all his paintings, even in the ones done years earlier. How could he have failed to notice their presence before? He saw them out of doors, too - among the micaschist metamorphoses of Cape Creus and, particularly, in a projection on top of the Great Masturbator rock at Cullaró. It was clear that he must now exploit rhino horns fully, making up for lost time. […] One of Dali's first efforts in the new genre was Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of her Own Chastity (1954). Based on a photograph he had seen in a sex magazine, it was bought, fittingly, by the Playboy Collection (Los Angeles), for of all Dali's paintings in praise of the female bottom it is the most blatantly erotic. Dali, tongue in cheek, had no difficulty in denying the phallic nature of the picture's horns. 'The rhinoceros horn is derived from the unicorn, the symbol of chastity,' he told Reynolds Morse. 'Paradoxically this painting which has an erotic appearance is the most chaste of all.'" (Excerpt, pp.531-532)
Material	Oil on canvas Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Canvas
Measurements	40.5 x 30.5 cm
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making)
Inscription	Lower right corner: artist's signature and date.
Work Type	Oil paintings Paintings
Repository	Hugh Hefner Collection (Playboy Enterprises, Los Angeles, California)
Source	Gibson, Ian. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1998. (Color plate XXXVI)
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Gibson courtesy: Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 2447-28.jpg
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