After Salvador Dali by Victor Goncharov, a Modern Russian artist, oil painting on canvas mounted on board, The Enigma of Desire: My mother, My Mother, My Mother, after the original oil painting, 1929 by Salvador Dali. Inscribed, titled, and probably dated, on the backside. The Enigma of Desire was created when surrealism was gaining its foothold in France. Dali considers The Enigma of Desire to be one of his ten most important paintings. The little group on the left depicts Dali himself embracing his father, with a fish, a grasshopper, a dagger, and a lions head. Salvador Dali is a Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor, director and writer. One of the most famous representatives of surrealism. One of a kind artwork.