Previously On View
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
Date
February 24, 2019 - May 26, 2019
Nearly 90 Surrealist masterworks of the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and André Masson are presented through a timely lens—that of war, violence, and exile.
To hear the exhibition’s free audio guide featuring the exhibition curator and other experts, please bring your fully-charged smartphone and earbuds or headphones with you on the day of your visit. The BMA also has a limited number of iPods available for guests to borrow.
The exhibition is curated by Oliver Shell, BMA Associate Curator of European Art, and Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
Sponsored By
This exhibition and related programs have been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by generous funding from Transamerica and The Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Exhibition Endowment Fund, and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Archive Gallery Images
Location
Special Exhibition Galleries
Select Artworks in this Exhibition
Joan Miró
Plate 3 from the “Black and Red Series”
1937
Jackson Pollock
Untitled
1943
Pablo Picasso
Minotauromachy
1934
Horst P. Horst
Study for “Dream of Venus”
1938
Frederick Sommer
Max Ernst
1945
Joan Miró
The Giantess
1937
Dora Maar
Three Statues Clothed with Covers
1929
William Baziotes
The Drugged Balloonist
1942
Wifredo Lam
Deity
1941
André Masson
The Metaphysical Wall
1939
Joan Miró
A Night Scene
1936
Joan Miró
Personages Attracted by the Forms of a Mountain
1935
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