Aurora Hiante

This is the work in which Costa Pinto's Surrealism is best expressed. For the first time, the dream appears in his painting to be resolved in a typically Daliesque scene of tender eroticism that exhibits a more complex symbolism than any of his other works, which favoured a recourse to metamorphosis, the anthropomorphization of the landscape and the expressive force of the main character. Also in 1949, seven years after its execution, this painting, exhibited in one of the windows of the Ática bookshop, caused a "major disturbance in the life of Chiado". Dalí, as in everything else he produced, was his most important reference. But what in the works of the Catalan painter was enigma and the raw expression of the most intimate sexual restlessness, in Costa Pinto becomes profound melancholy.