Accession Number
1986/1.181

Title
Ephemera Relating to Works by Salvador Dalí from the Julian Levy Gallery, New York

Artist(s)
Salvador Dali

Artist Nationality
Spanish (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1941

Medium & Support
photomechanical reproduction on cardboard

Dimensions
16 in x 13 in (40.64 cm x 33.02 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of the Betty Parsons Foundation

Label copy
Julien Levy was introduced by Duchamp in 1927 to the Surrealists in Paris. His New York gallery, founded in 1929, was the first American gallery to represent Surrealist artists. His exhibitions were important for the avant-garde for the next fifteen years, and as a Harvard graduate, Levy influenced his college friends A. Everett "Chick" Austin, director of The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and Alfred Barr, founder of The Museum of Modern Art, to organize seminal exhibitions of Surrealist art.
This marketing piece promotes works by Salvador Dalí for sale at the Julien Levy Gallery—paintings, portraits, drawings, jewels, and crystal. As well, it announces the availability of "fragments" of the manuscript for The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, a book by the artist published by the Dial Press in New York that same year.
During his period of exile from 1940 to 1945 Dalí lived in New York and California, where he occupied himself with book illustration and portraiture as well as devoting himself to fashion, musical theater, and film.
Label copy from exhibition "Dreamscapes: The Surrealist Impulse," August 22 - October 25, 1998

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Architecture
Figures
Portraits
Surrealism
automaton
man
mannequins (costume equipment)
masks
modern and contemporary art