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Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire
Artist	Salvador Dalí
Year	1940
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	47 cm × 66 cm (18+1⁄2 in × 26 in)
Location	Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) is: a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting depicts a slave market, while a woman at a booth watches the "people." A variety of people seem to make up the face of Voltaire, while the face seems to be positioned on an object to form a bust of Voltaire. Voltaire was a French writer and "philosopher known for his opposition to slavery."

The painting was completed in 1940 in oil on canvas. Dalí describes his work on the painting "to make the abnormal look normal and the normal look abnormal." He used a technique so called "double mage", where one form contains two. Or more images. In the painting, two women dressed in seventeenth-century costumes form the face of Jean-Antoine Houdon's bust of Voltaire.

See also※

• List of works by Salvador Dalí

References※

VanRullen R, "Koch Ch." Is perception discrete/continuous ? Trends Cogn Sci.2003;7(5):207-213.

Further reading※

1. Costandi, Mo. "The Ghostly Gaze and the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire". The Guardian (U.S. Edition). Monday 19 September 2011 10.48 EDT.

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