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The Burning Giraffe (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. Dalí painted Burning Giraffe before his exile in the United States which was from 1940 – 1948. Although Dalí declared himself apolitical— I am Dalí and only that—this painting shows his personal struggle with the battle in his home country. Characteristic are the opened drawers in the blue female figure which Dalí on a later date described as Femme-coccyx (tail bone woman).