What is the name of the surrealist object created by Dalí in 1936 featuring a telephone?

The surrealist object created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 featuring a telephone is called Lobster Telephone.

Dalí made the work for the English poet and art collector Edward James, an important patron of Surrealism. It combines an ordinary working telephone with a plaster lobster placed where the receiver would normally rest. The deliberately irrational pairing turns a familiar household device into a strange, comic, and faintly disturbing object.

Dalí associated both telephones and lobsters with sexual meanings, and the work is also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone. Its imagery grew from ideas Dalí had explored in a 1935 drawing captioned “New York Dream—Man Finds Lobster in Place of Phone.” He later included a related entry in the 1938 Dictionnaire Abrégé du Surréalisme.

Several examples exist, including red and off-white versions, so Lobster Telephone refers to a series of objects rather than one unique surviving copy. It should not be confused with Dalí’s Mae West Lips Sofa, another famous Surrealist object associated with Edward James.