10 Euros Salvador Dalí - El gran masturbador

This piece belongs to a broader Spanish commemorative program celebrating figures of the Generation of '27 and the wider Spanish cultural avant-garde. Dalí's 1929 painting El gran masturbador was itself a product of his early Surrealist period in Paris, heavily influenced by his relationship with Gala Éluard and the psychoanalytic frameworks he was absorbing at the time. The Spanish state issuing a coin bearing that title in 2004 is, quietly, a remarkable act — the work's subject matter caused considerable controversy even decades after its creation.