La tentación de San Antonio

The temptation of San Antonio

In the picture it appears to san Antonio Abad in a desert, knelt down and supporting a cross done with two varitas to be protected from the temptations that attack it, with the former gesture of the exorcism. These are represented by a horse and a row of elephants, all the these ones with his elongated legs of grotesque form and each one loading with a temptation. San Antonio is represented as a beggar, is nake and deshevelled and rests on a stone. In front of him there is a skull.

 The picture describes literally the temptations to which the man normally falls:

- The Victory represented with the horse, which has his hoofs spoiled and full of powder. This animal resembles the skeletal donkeys of the first surrealistic pictures of the author.

- Sex represented by the woman on the first elephant.

- Gold and wealths, represented by both elephants on which there is a pyramid and a golden house and inside the latter, a woman's bust waits for it.

More behind, another elephant loads the highest monolith on his back. Behind this one and on the clouds, there is a castle.

 In the desert landscape, two men discuss and to the bottom, a man takes of the hand his son. The latter couple of prominent figures also is represented in atavistic Vestiges after the rain. A white angel flies on the desert.