Dali- Die drei Sphinxe von Bikini - info
1947 in Anlehnung an das Original von Figueras.Lithographie
Between the years of 1946 and 1958 (after World War II), the United States
conducted 23 nuclear tests at the Micronesian atoll, Bikini. The tests caused the
radioactive contamination of the entire system of islands. The (roughly) two
hundred Micronesians who inhabited the islands were relocated by the US
before the tests, and eventually brought back in 1968. The US lost a lawsuit to
the Micronesians in the amount of $100 million when it was discovered, ten
years later in 1978, that the levels of radioactivity were still dangerously high.
These experimental explosions on the atoll of Bikini inspired Dali to paint the
Three Sphinxes of Bikini.
