Horst P. Horst and Salvador Dalí
Study for “Dream of Venus”
1938
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Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print with black opaque watercolor, Image: 253 × 202 mm. (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.286
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, July, 1985
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
"Salvador Dali and Mass Culture," Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali with the La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, January 27-May 23, 2004; Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, June 15-August 30, 2004; Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, March 5-June 12, 2005.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November 1989.
"Salvador Dali and Mass Culture," Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali with the La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, January 27-May 23, 2004; Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, June 15-August 30, 2004; Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, March 5-June 12, 2005.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November 1989.
Dilys E. Blum, 'Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli,' Philadelphia Museum of Art: 2003, p. 145, ill.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: IMAGE FACE: LRC (gouache, surrounded by crown) 'GALA/S. DALI/1939.'; VERSO: four white labels, top to bottom 'Neuberger Museum', 'LOWE Art Museum', 'Private Collection', 'The Grenoble Collection'; UL (black ink) '3238/Bill'
