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Myself at the Age of Ten When I was the Grasshopper Child
(1933)
Oil on panel
8 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches
Insects often make appearances in Dali's paintings,
though their meanings can be vastly different. In this
work, they refer directly to the fact that Dali was often
tormented by other children in his youth. Dali tells us in
several of his autobiographical works that they would
often throw grasshoppers and other insects at him,
which eventually led him to have an irrational fear of
insects, and to include them in his paintings as paranoid
critical objects for fear or terror in general.
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