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The Sacrament of the Last Supper
''The Sacrament of the Last Supper'' is a painting by Salvador Dalí. Completed in 1955, after nine months of work, it remains one of his most popular compositions. Since its arrival at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1955, it replaced Renoir's ''A Girl with a Watering Can'' as the most popular piece in the museum.
==Background==
''The Sacrament of the Last Supper'' was completed during Dalí's post-World War II era, which is characterized by his increased interest in science, optical illusion and religion. During this time he became a devout Catholic and simultaneously was astonished by the "atomic age". Dalí himself labeled this era in his work "Nuclear Mysticism". He sought out to combine traditional Christian iconography with images of disintegration. This is especially apparent in his piece ''The Madonna of Port Lligat'', which was completed six years earlier.
The painting wasn't commissioned. After purchasing the Crucifixion and then giving it to the Metropolitan, collector and banker Chester Dale told Dalí he "had to do one more religious picture". In a paragraph in the National Gallery's curatorial file but is missing from all published accounts, Dalí wrote of this picture:
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