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The folk at Lux Mentis Booksellers (an online archive hard-to-find books) scanned and posted a selection of Clarence Hornung logos that are worth a mention. They’re from the book Trade-Marks Designed By Clarence P Hornung, published in 1930 by Caxton Press.
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It is housed in Madrid’s Museo del Prado and measures 179 by 233 centimetres (70 inches by 92 inches).
On his left shoulder, Jacob rests his head against a tree. His dream ladder is seen in the distance on the other side of the room. An angelic ladder of light ascends and descends rather than an actual ladder made of wood.
The self-parody implied by the title and subject matter is consistent with the late time of Dali’s life in which the artwork was created.
While most of Dali’s works are oil on canvas, Hitler Masturbating is a watercolour.
The informality of the medium suggests a quicker production time than for most of Dali’s oeuvre. It’s a break from the careful photorealism of Dali’s other works, which tend toward a kind of artificial automatism.
The landscape has a more impressionistic feel due to the looser brushwork. As the name of the painting implies, it depicts a scene in which a dictator dressed in full Nazi regalia sits in an armchair with his back to the observer in the midst of a desolate snowscape.
In his autobiographical work The Great Masturbator (1929), the artist explores his own sexual obsessions, worries, and fears. The painting’s focal point is a big amorphous shape that is a deformed self-portrait of the artist: Dali represents himself with his eyes closed and a large grasshopper placed on his mouth. Some of Dali’s other works, such as his masterpiece The Persistence of Memory, also feature self-portraits that are quite similar to this one (1931).