Aphrodisiac coat
Cat. no. OE 31
Aphrodisiac coat
Description
Dalí included this work in his window display for the Bonwit Teller department store in New York, and described it in The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí as ‘my famous "aphrodisiac coat" consisting of a black dinner jacket to which were attached one beside another, so as to completely cover it, eighty-eight liqueur glasses filled to the edge with green crême de menthe, with a dead fly and a cocktail straw in each glass’. The artist showed Aphrodisiac Jacket for the first time at the Exposition surréaliste d’objets at the Charles Ratton gallery in May 1936, and identified it as a thinking machine, a new category of Surrealist object. There are insufficient elements to determine whether this was a version of the work presented in Paris, and for the present it must be assumed that we are dealing with two works and that these, with the same title, or with slight variants, possess the characteristic features that conceptually define this Surrealist object.
Bibliography
- "Newest art sensation inspires Bonwit's to do «surrealist» windows", Retailing, 28/12/1936, New York, NY, ill., indirect image
- "This Crazy World ! Surrealism is Proving Contagious", Indiana Evening Gazette, 06/01/1937, Indiana, PA, p. 9, ill., indirect image
- "This Crazy World Surrealism Is Proving Contagious", The Rhinelander Daily News, 08/01/1937, Rhinelander, WI, p. 6, ill., indirect image
- Marcel Zahar, "Le surréalisme et New-York", Marianne, 5e année, num. 232, 31/03-06/04/1937, Paris, p. 4
- Frank Caspers, "Surrealism in overalls", Scribner's Magazine, vol. 104, no. 2, 08/1938, New York, NY, p. 18, ill., indirect image
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, p. [344]
- Salvador Dalí, Lettre ouverte à Salvador Dalí, Albin Michel, Paris, 1966, p. 43
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- Ghislaine Wood, The Surreal body : fetish and fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2007, p. 59, ill., indirect image
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Dalí's world, Goodman, London, 2009, p. 45, ill., indirect image
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 45, ill., indirect image
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Le Monde de Dalí, Larousse, Barcelona, 2012, p. 45, ill., indirect image
- Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, fig. 48, ill., indirect image
- Valerie J. Fletcher, Marvelous objects : surrealist sculpture from Paris to New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Delmonico Books, Prestel, Washington, DC, Munich, London, New York, 2015, pp. 53, 55, ill., indirect image
- Torsten Otte, Salvador Dalí & Andy Warhol : encounters in New York and beyond, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, 2016, p. 163
- Dalí / Duchamp, Royal Academy of Arts, The Dalí Museum, London, St. Petersburg, FL, 2017, p. 198, ill., indirect image
- Gek van surrelisme, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2017, pp. [182]-183, ill., indirect image
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