Throughout #SalvadorDali's career as an artist, bread was an important symbol for him: first as a communal symbol, than a phallic symbol, and later transforming into a religious symbol. #DaliDecoded . . "The Basket of Bread". Salvador Dali, 1926. Worldwide rights ©Salvador Dali. Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali (Artists Rights Society), 2017 / In the USA ©Salvador Dali Museum, Inc. St. Petersburg, FL 2017.