In "Le Terrain de croquet de la reine," Dalí translates Lewis Carroll's surreal narrative into a dreamlike visual composition using gouache, watercolour, ink wash, and India ink on paper. The work captures the chaotic energy of the croquet scene from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," where flamingos serve as mallets and hedgehogs become balls, rendered in Dalí's characteristic style that blurs the boundary between the fantastical and the meticulously detailed. Through his mixed media approach on paper, the artist transforms Carroll's literary absurdism into a hallucinatory landscape that exemplifies his mastery of surrealist technique and his fascination with illustrating modernist literary sources.