What is the title of Dalí's 1948 painting of four elephants with long legs?

What is the title of Dalí’s 1948 painting of four elephants with long legs? The answer is The Elephants.

The Elephants is a 1948 oil painting by Salvador Dalí showing four immense elephants crossing a barren landscape. Their unnaturally thin, elongated legs create the famous contrast between enormous weight and apparent weightlessness that defines the image.

The painting belongs to Dalí’s mature Surrealist period. The elephants carry obelisks on their backs, a motif often linked to Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture of an elephant supporting an obelisk in Rome. Dalí transformed that classical image into a dreamlike spectacle, making the animals’ legs seem almost invisible.

Elephants recur throughout Dalí’s work. Earlier examples include Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, while The Temptation of Saint Anthony also features his spindly-legged creatures. The Elephants is distinct because the animals dominate the composition rather than appearing as one element in a crowded dream scene.

It is easy to confuse this title with Swans Reflecting Elephants or The Temptation of Saint Anthony, but the straightforward title The Elephants is the canonical name of the 1948 painting.