What is the title of Dalí's 1937 double-image painting of swans?

Dalí’s 1937 double-image painting of swans is titled Swans Reflecting Elephants.

The oil-on-canvas work shows three swans beside a lake, with their reflections transforming into elephants. The swans’ necks become trunks, their bodies become ears, and the bare trees behind them become the elephants’ legs. Dalí uses the surface of the water as the mechanism that lets one scene operate as two images at once.

The painting belongs to Dalí’s paranoiac-critical period, when he explored visual ambiguity and the mind’s ability to discover figures in uncertain forms. The technique was related to the method he described in The Conquest of the Irrational, his 1935 essay. The reflection is not simply a realistic detail: it is the central device that makes the transformation possible.

Viewers sometimes confuse this work with The Elephants, another Dalí painting whose title foregrounds the animals. They may also remember The Hallucinogenic Toreador, which contains layered visual effects but is a different, much later work. Swans Reflecting Elephants is specifically identified by its three swans, their lake reflections, and the resulting elephant forms against a Catalan landscape.