When Salvador Dalí tried to get a rhino to attack a Vermeer painting

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In his long artistic career, Salvador Dalí had more than a few obsessions. Two of them — Vermeer’s painting The Lacemaker and rhinoceros horns — intersected one day at the Vincennes Zoo in Paris.

Dalí’s transfixion with The Lacemaker stretched back to when he was 9 years old and became "absolutely obsessed in a truly delirious way" with the painting.

In 1954, he arranged for a private session with the painting at the Louvre, where he would attempt to copy it in one hour.

As the story goes, after the hour was over Dalí had not painted a woman working with lace, but rather a set of rhinoceros horns. Read more...

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