What is the title of Salvador Dalí’s 1944 painting of a sleeping woman supported by a horse, a tiger and a pomegranate?

Salvador Dalí’s 1944 painting is titled Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening.

The painting shows Gala, Dalí’s wife and frequent model, apparently asleep above a rock near the sea. Around her float a pomegranate, a bee, two tigers, a rifle and a bayonet. A nude figure resembling Gala appears in the background, balanced on the back of an elephant with elongated legs.

Dalí’s exceptionally long title describes the imagined chain of events produced by a brief sensory stimulus. In the painting’s logic, the buzzing bee causes a dream filled with danger just before waking. The work therefore connects Surrealism with dreams, involuntary associations and the unconscious.

The painting is in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. Its elaborate title is frequently shortened in casual discussion, but the full title is the precise answer to the question.