From the Clot Collection of bronzes.

This figure is, along with “Christ of Saint John of the Cross”, the best known of Dali’s religious works. The opening in the Virgin’s breast, leads one to imagine the infant Jesus suspended in the air, just as He is portrayed in Dali’s oil of the same title [1950]. With the exception of certain images inspired by the great Italian Renaissance Master, Raphael, the faces of Dali’s Madonnas always represent his wife Gala.