Cybernetic Lobster Telephone (Imaginations and Objects of the Future)

"Cybernetic Lobster Telephone (Imaginations and Objects of the Future)" is a hand-signed lithograph and etching created by Salvador Dalí in 1975. The image size is 28" x 21". The artwork ships framed, signed and with a certificate of authenticity. Featuring one of Dalí’s best-loved images – the lobster – the Cybernetic Lobster Telephone is extremely appealing in terms of starting a Dalí collection or filling one in with a classic piece. Described as an “aesthetic variation on the telephone”, this one is all the more humorous for its complete inability to function as a telephone and for the danger faced by a user should they put the lobster to their ear. It has been suggested that this telephone represents the obsolescence of such technology as ideas and words would be communicated by thought alone in the future. The Imaginations and Objects of the Future series was born of the concerted effort of a Chicago-based gallerist to convince Dalí to do a set of prints about the future. It was