Day 4: Christina Cacouris

“La Revolution Surrealiste” magazine edited by Surrealism’s founder, Andre Breton, 1924.

The Surrealists: Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Andre Breton, Hans Arp, Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Rene Crevel and Man Ray in Paris, 1933.

Time Magazine cover, 1936. Photograph of Salvador Dali by Man Ray.

Salvador Dali, “The Enigma of Hitler”, 1938.

Telegram sent by Salvador Dali postponing the press reception for his “Dream of Venus” pavilion at the World’s Fair, citing “complexity of subconscious” as the reason for delay.

Salvador Dali, “Dream of Venus” pavilion facade at the World’s Fair in Flushing, New York, 1939.

Salvador Dali, “Mae West’s Face Which May Be Used as a Surrealist Apartment”, 1934 / “She Done Him Wrong” film poster, 1933. A year prior to this work by Dali, the Museum of Modern Art notably hired Iris Barry as their first film curator, who began purchasing films and posters for preservation.

Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali

Elsa Schiaparelli’s “The Tears Dress” from her Circus Collection of 1938, with a print designed by Dali.

Salvador Dali, “Necrophiliac Springtime”, 1936. Gift to Elsa Schiaparelli.

Gala Dali wearing the Schiaparelli “shoe hat”.

Sketch of the “Shoe hat”.

Window display by Salvador Dali at department store Bonwit Teller, New York. Window reads: “She was a Surrealist Woman - she was like a figure in a dream.”

Salvador Dali, c. 1950.

Bonus: note the similarity between Salvador Dali’s dream sequence for Spellbound (1945) and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)