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Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s

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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.

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Location

Special Exhibition Galleries
Floor plan Special Exhibition Galleries

Select Artworks in this Exhibition

Plate 3 from the “Black and Red Series”

Joan Miró

Plate 3 from the “Black and Red Series”

1938
Untitled

Jackson Pollock

Untitled

1944-1945, printed 1967
Minotauromachy

Pablo Picasso

Minotauromachy

1935
Study for “Dream of Venus”

Horst P. Horst

Study for “Dream of Venus”

1939
Max Ernst

Frederick Sommer

Max Ernst

1946
The Giantess

Joan Miró

The Giantess

1938
Three Statues Clothed with Covers

Dora Maar

Three Statues Clothed with Covers

c. 1930s
The Drugged Balloonist

William Baziotes

The Drugged Balloonist

1943
Deity

Wifredo Lam

Deity

1942
The Metaphysical Wall

André Masson

The Metaphysical Wall

1940
A Night Scene

Joan Miró

A Night Scene

1937
Personages Attracted by the Forms of a Mountain

Joan Miró

Personages Attracted by the Forms of a Mountain

1936
Figures and Birds in a Landscape

Joan Miró

Figures and Birds in a Landscape

1935
Summer

Joan Miró

Summer

1938
Plate 7 from the “Black and Red Series”

Joan Miró

Plate 7 from the “Black and Red Series”

1938
Seated Nude

David Hare

Seated Nude

1938, published 1943
Yellow Abstract Composition

Robert Motherwell

Yellow Abstract Composition

1942, published 1943
Diagrams for “There Is No Finished World”

André Masson

Diagrams for “There Is No Finished World”

1942
Forms in a Landscape

Matta

Forms in a Landscape

1937
Brook in the Forest

André Masson

Brook in the Forest

1937
The Two Rites

Maria Martins

The Two Rites

1942
Tauromachie

André Masson

Tauromachie

1937
Chimeras in the Mountains

Max Ernst

Chimeras in the Mountains

1940
Ophelia

André Masson

Ophelia

1937
In the Tower of Sleep

André Masson

In the Tower of Sleep

1938
There Is No Finished World

André Masson

There Is No Finished World

1942
Rocks

Matta

Rocks

1940
Portrait No. 1

Joan Miró

Portrait No. 1

1938
Water Birds

Jackson Pollock

Water Birds

1943
The Earth and the Air

Yves Tanguy

The Earth and the Air

1941
The Unattainable

Arshile Gorky

The Unattainable

1945
Headless Woman

Alberto Giacometti

Headless Woman

Original model 1932-1936; this cast 1960
Monster

Robert Motherwell

Monster

1975
Delusions of Grandeur

René Magritte

Delusions of Grandeur

1967
Untitled

Jackson Pollock

Untitled

c. 1944
Eiffel Tower

Marc Chagall

Eiffel Tower

1942, published 1943
Women in War

David Smith

Women in War

1941
Women and Bird in Front of the Moon

Joan Miró

Women and Bird in Front of the Moon

1944

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