The sensational Dream of Venus pavilion that Salvador Dalí created for the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens, New York, introduced many a visitor to Surrealism. Its biomorphic, irregular, bulbous plaster exterior, complete with limb-like protrusions, contained an elaborate grotto featuring a nude Venus sleeping on a giant satin bed; her dream was acted out in a nearby aquarium by scantily-clad beauties (or “liquid ladies,” as Dalí called them). This hand-colored photograph, which Dalí made in collaboration with fashion photographer Horst P. Horst, is a study for one of the revealing finned and spiked costumes worn by the models and actors who inhabited the multi-media underwater fantasy world.