Which 1936 Salvador Dalí painting is also known as Premonition of Civil War?

Salvador Dalí’s 1936 painting is titled Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, also known as Premonition of Civil War.

Dalí painted it in the months before the Spanish Civil War began in July 1936. The distorted, monstrous body tearing itself apart is commonly interpreted as an image of the violence and conflict engulfing Spain. The boiled beans in the title refer to the modest food Dalí said he imagined eating amid the painting’s disturbing scene.

The work belongs to Dalí’s highly detailed Surrealist period, when realistic rendering was used to depict irrational or dreamlike forms. Its alternate title is important: many references list the work under the longer name Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War).

It is often confused with The Burning Giraffe, another wartime painting by Dalí. The latter was completed in 1937 and uses flaming giraffes, while Soft Construction with Boiled Beans focuses on a grotesquely fused human-like figure.