The Temptation of St. Anthony by Salvador Dalí (1946). This work began Dalí’s classical period or the “Dalí Renaissance.”
It was an entry to a 1946 contest held by the David L. Loew-Albert Lewin film production company requiring a painting on the theme of the temptation of Saint Anthony, with the winner to be used in the film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. Dalí did not win.