Two tigers appear in Salvador Dalí’s 1944 painting Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening.
The tigers leap from the mouth of a large fish, which emerges from a pomegranate. The surreal chain of forms leads toward a reclining nude figure, generally identified as Gala, while a bee near the lower part of the composition provides the supposed trigger for the dream.
Dalí’s title presents the scene as a dream occurring in the instant before awakening. The painting is often shortened to Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, but the full title includes “a Second Before Awakening.” It is held by the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.