Ads, dresses, spindly elephants: More from the Dali universe

He created illustrations and covers for magazines, sets for a ballet, designed dresses and commercial art. Here are more samples of the master artist’s work.

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The iconic lobster dress created in collaboration with fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s.

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A Vogue cover from April 1, 1944.

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A Vogue cover from June 1, 1939.

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The August 1945 cover of Town & Country Magazine.

(Photo courtesy Christie’s)

A posters Dali created for the International Silk Convention in the 1950s.

(Wikimedia)

The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus;1959. This was a part of a series of large paintings by Dali, and represents Columbus bringing Christianity to the Americas.

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(HT Archives)

The ashtray Dali created for Air India in 1967, a surrealist masterpiece that merges elephants, swans, and a serpent into an aircraft-fuselage-inspired seashell design.

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(Wikimedia)

The Elephants; 1948.