How does this artwork elucidate its Progression and comparison to The Basket of Bread (1926)?
Dalí used bread in many of his paintings, and was quoted as saying:"Bread has always been one of the oldest subjects of fetishism and obsession in my work, the first and the one to which I have remained the most faithful. I painted the same subject 19 years ago. By making a very careful comparison of the two pictures, everyone can study all the history of painting right there, from the linear charm of primitivism to stereoscopic hyper-aestheticism."
At 22, Dalí spent four months on the 1926 painting The Basket of Bread, of which he said: "by the power of its density, the fascination of its immobility, creates the mystical, paroxysmic feeling of a situation beyond our ordinary notion of the real.  We are at the borderline of dematerialization of matter by the sole power of the mind."The loaf of bread, painted and completed in Monterey, California in 1945, he described to Luis Romero as "the most esoteric and the most Surrealist of anything I have painted to date," where the painting is even more dynamic [than the 1926 version] by having the basket of bread placed on the edge of the table, giving a strong sense of forthcoming "borderline of dematerialization".
stereoscopic Surrealist aestheticism fetishism mystical Monterey, California primitivism esoteric The Basket of Bread painting paroxysmic