Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (French:Couple aux Têtes Pleines de Nuages) is a 1936 diptych painting bySalvador Dalí. The oil onplywood work represent tables in a desert landscape and are cut out like the silhouettes of the characters inJean-François Millet's paintingThe Angelus (L'Angélus). The works are both double portraits of Salvador andGala Dali.[citation needed]
This work is part of the permanent collection of theBoijmans Van Beuningen Museum inRotterdam.[1]
This work was sold for £8.31 million at auction atBonham's in London in October 2020, the first time the work had ever come under the gavel.[2][3]
The work was put up for sale by the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, the foundation of the descendants ofGiacinto Scelsi, the Italian Modernist composer and aristocrat. Previously the work was on loan to and displayed at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto.[4] The work was displayed in 2018 at theRoyal Academy of Art in London as part of the exhibition Dali/Duchamp.[5]
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