What is the title of Dalí's 1936 painting depicting the Spanish Civil War?

Dalí’s 1936 painting depicting the Spanish Civil War is Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War). The title describes its grotesque central form: a distorted, seemingly self-devouring mass of human limbs set against a Catalan landscape.

Dalí painted the work in 1936, around six months before the Spanish Civil War began. He later presented it as an uncanny premonition, claiming that his subconscious had anticipated the catastrophe. The painting does not straightforwardly celebrate either side; instead, its contorted anatomy suggests the violence and destructive logic of a civil war, in which a society turns against itself.

The boiled beans are not a decorative afterthought. Dalí explained their presence by saying that one could not imagine swallowing so much unconscious, violent “meat” without some melancholy vegetable. The work is an oil painting on canvas measuring 100 by 99 centimetres.

It is often confused with Picasso’s Guernica, another major antiwar image associated with Spain. Guernica was painted in 1937, whereas Dalí’s Soft Construction belongs to the tense period immediately before the conflict erupted.