Which 1950 Salvador Dalí painting shows a Madonna with a floating atom-like sphere?

The Madonna of Port Lligat is Salvador Dalí’s 1950 painting showing a Madonna with a floating atom-like sphere.

Dalí created two versions of The Madonna of Port Lligat, with the first dating from 1949 and the better-known second version from 1950. The painting presents the Virgin Mary seated above a landscape associated with Portlligat, while the Christ Child and surrounding objects appear suspended within a carefully ordered composition.

The work belongs to Dalí’s period of renewed interest in Catholic imagery and modern science. The floating elements and suspended bread-like forms combine Renaissance-inspired composition with references to atomic structure and postwar scientific thought.

It is often confused with Corpus Hypercubus, Dalí’s 1954 painting of Christ on a hypercube cross, or with The Sacrament of the Last Supper. The Port Lligat title specifically identifies the Madonna scene linked to Dalí’s Catalan home.