Why it matters
A withered, disembodied head floats in a desert, with identical faces in its mouth and eye sockets, and more faces within those, implying infinity, while snakes swarm around it. Dalí painted it in California.
Did you know?
- It dates from 1940.
- It was painted between the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.
- Dalí insisted the handprint in the corner was his own.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Face of War (CC BY-SA 4.0).
