Which 1937 Salvador Dalí painting depicts a desert landscape with a soft, burning giraffe?

Salvador Dalí’s 1937 painting depicting a desert landscape with a soft, burning giraffe is The Burning Giraffe.

The scene contains two elongated female figures, drawers projecting from their bodies and a giraffe engulfed in flames in the distance. Dalí combined realistic detail with impossible anatomy, making the landscape feel like a carefully observed nightmare.

Dalí painted the work during the Spanish Civil War, and the burning animal is often discussed in relation to the anxiety and violence of that period. The painting also reflects his interest in psychoanalysis, especially the idea that hidden thoughts might appear through symbolic images.

The title is sometimes confused with The Elephants, another Dalí painting featuring unusually distorted animals. The key difference is that The Burning Giraffe contains a flaming giraffe and drawer-filled human figures, while The Elephants is known for its impossibly thin legs.