Lobster Telephone

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sculpture surrealist artwork

Lobster Telephone is a surrealist sculpture by Salvador Dalí that combines a lobster and a telephone to create an absurd, dreamlike everyday object.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	sculpture → surrealist artwork →
alsoKnownAs	Aphrodisiac Telephone → Téléphone Homard →
artForm	three-dimensional art →
artworkType	readymade →
associatedWith	Edward James → London Surrealist scene →
collection	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen → Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art → Tate Modern →
colorVariant	black telephone with red lobster →
commissionedBy	Edward James →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
creator	Salvador Dalí →
depicts	lobster → telephone →
describedAs	absurd everyday object → dreamlike object →
exhibitedAt	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen → Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art → Tate Modern →
genre	Surrealism →
hasDimension	approximately 17 cm high → approximately 30 cm long →
hasPart	Bakelite telephone → lobster sculpture →
hasSubject	eroticism → everyday objects → unconscious mind →
hasVersion	White Aphrodisiac Telephone →
inception	1936 →
influencedBy	Freudian psychoanalysis →
inspiredBy	Sigmund Freud →
languageOfTitle	English →
locationOfFirstExhibition	London →
materialUsed	metal → plaster → plastic → rubber →
movement	Surrealism →
notableWorkOf	Salvador Dalí →
numberOfCopies	11 →
partOf	Edward James collection →
placeOfCreation	London →
usesTechnique	assemblage → found object →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lobster Telephone ("Aphrodisiac Telephone") → Lobster Telephone ("Téléphone Homard") →	alsoKnownAs
Salvador Dalí → Salvador Dalí →	notableWork
Marquess of Dalí de Púbol →	granteeNotableWork