This incredible reproduction of Salvador Dali’s One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate is hand painted to the highest standards – Revealing all the fantastic detail of the original: And one knows if it is Dali it is most certainly fantastic!

The original Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee was created in 1944. At the time Dali and his beloved Gala were living in America and the title does much to explain the painting. While the world of dreams (the discoveries of Sigmund Freud) played a huge and active part within the work of Dali this particular composition was inspired by one of Gala’s dreams.

Freud discovered that external stimulus could become a catalyst for dreams. Here, the Bee around the pomegranate gives way to the wide mouthed fish; which gives way to the tigress and the lioness, who give way to the gun which points at the naked Gala. Seeds from the pomegranate fall into Gala’s calm deep blue surrounding waters: And a white elephant on stilts (a repetitive symbol in the work of Dali) is carrying a large obelisk. For many the black and yellow of the tigers and the sting of the bayonet’s knife represent the evolution of the bee within the dream.

In 1962, the artist declared that this painting intended "to express for the first time in images Freud’s discovery of the typical dream with a lengthy narrative, the consequence of the instantaneousness of a chance event which causes the sleeper to wake up. Thus, as a bar might fall on the neck of a sleeping person, causing them to wake up and for a long dream to end with the guillotine blade falling on them, the noise of the bee here provokes the sensation of the sting which will awaken Gala."