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Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment

This collage creates the illusion of both a woman's face and a home interior. Blond hair doubles as curtains in an entryway, while her eyes become framed artwork on the wall. The wall, or the top half of the face, is bright red, and doubles as a face mask.
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018

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  • This collage creates the illusion of both a woman's face and a home interior. Blond hair doubles as curtains in an entryway, while her eyes become framed artwork on the wall. The wall, or the top half of the face, is bright red, and doubles as a face mask.

Date:

1934–35

Artist:

Salvador Dalí
Spanish, 1904-1989

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Salvador Dalí

Title

Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment

Place

Spain (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1934–1935

Medium

Gouache with graphite, on commercially printed magazine page

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower right: "Salvador Dali"

Dimensions

28.3 × 17.8 cm (11 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed

Reference Number

1949.517

Copyright

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018

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