Visitors looking at the Leda Atomica painting by Salvador Dalí at The Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, August 20, 2014

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Visitors looking at the Leda Atomica painting by Salvador Dalí at The Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, August 20, 2014. Leda Atomica is a painting by Salvador Dalí, made in 1949. The picture depicts Leda, the mythological queen of Sparta, with the swan. Leda is a frontal portrait of Dalí's wife, Gala, who is seated on a pedestal with a swan suspended behind and to her left. The Dalí Theatre-Museum is the largest surrealistic object in the world. It is located in Figueres, Spain in the former Municipal Theatre, a 19th century construction destroyed at the end of the Spanish Civil War. On its ruins, Salvador Dalí decided to create his museum.

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Location: Figueres Spain
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