Untitled. Mannequin with head of red roses and fingernails of ermine fur
Cat. no. OE 29
Untitled. Mannequin with head of red roses and fingernails of ermine fur
Description
In The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, the artist refers to the creation of this figure with a head of roses and fingernails of ermine fur. The iconography of the head of roses is directly related to paintings such as Birth of Liquid Desires from 1932 and Woman with Head of Roses from 1935. The work also played a prominent role in The International Surrealist Exhibition held in London in 1936. Issue number 4 of the International Surrealist Bulletin included a photograph of the performance artist Sheila Legge modelling the head of roses to accompany its article on the exhibition. In the Dictionnaire abregé de surrealisme of 1938, Dalí illustrated the entry ‘Rose’ with this same iconography.
Bibliography
- A. Hugues, "Dali Does A Surrealist Shop Window", New York American, 20/12/1936, New York, NY
- "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
- "Fifth Ave. Crowd Stops to View Dali Window", New York Telegraph, 23/12/1939, New York, NY
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, p. [344]
- Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, p. 368
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Textos autobiogràfics 2, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona, [Figueres], 2003, pp. 547-548
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Textos autobiogràfics 1, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona, [Figueres], 2003, p. 809
- Surreal things : surrealism and design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2007, p. 157, ill., indirect image
- Cosas del surrealismo : surrealismo y diseño, Victoria and Albert Museum, Guggenheim Bilbao, London, Bilbao, 2007, p. 157, ill., indirect image
- Ghislaine Wood, The Surreal body : fetish and fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2007, p. 59, ill., indirect image
- Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, fig. 198, 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, p. 55, ill., indirect image
- 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, p. [182], ill., indirect image
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