The Basket of Bread

{{Short description|1926 painting by Salvador Dalí}}

{{About|1926 Salvador Dalí painting|the 1945 Salvador Dalí painting|Basket of Bread}}

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| title=The Basket of Bread

| artist=Salvador Dalí

| year=1926

| medium=Oil on canvas

| height_metric=31.75

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| museum=Salvador Dalí Museum

| city=St. Petersburg, Florida

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The Basket of Bread is a painting by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting depicts four pieces of bread with butter on them sitting in a basket. One is separated from the others and is half-bitten. The basket sits on a white cloth. The painting is in the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.

The painting was completed in 1926 when Dalí was twenty-two years old, shortly after he had finished his formal art class in Madrid where he was studying the Dutch Masters.{{Cite web |title=Webcoast's View on Salvador Dali |url=https://www.daliweb.tampa.fl.us/25.htm |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=www.daliweb.tampa.fl.us}} It is among the earliest of several paintings of bread by Dalí; a later example is Basket of Bread (1945).