What is the title of Dalí's 1939 painting about Adolf Hitler?

Dalí’s 1939 painting about Adolf Hitler is titled The Enigma of Hitler. It is an oil-on-canvas work made during the tense period surrounding the outbreak of the Second World War and Dalí’s expulsion from the Surrealist movement.

The painting grew out of Dalí’s unsettling fascination with Hitler. He described it as connected to several dreams, including one involving Neville Chamberlain’s umbrella transforming into a bat. A cut telephone cord in the scene has often been interpreted as a symbol of broken or ineffective communication between Chamberlain and Hitler.

The work was first exhibited at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1939. It was priced at $1,750 but did not sell there, and Life magazine reproduced it on 17 April 1939. It is now held by Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. The title should not be confused with Hitler Masturbating, another Dalí work listed separately.