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Untitled (Dream of Venus) formerly Visions of Eternity

Painting of an arid landscape in blue, beige, and gray. At left, a dark figure-like form sits atop a beige archway, two gray kidney shapes below it.
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018

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  • Painting of an arid landscape in blue, beige, and gray. At left, a dark figure-like form sits atop a beige archway, two gray kidney shapes below it.

Date:

1939

Artist:

Salvador Dalí
Spanish, 1904–1989

About this artwork

This painting originally comprised the left-most portion of a much larger mural featured in the popular and salacious Dream of Venus pavilion, which Dalí created for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Incorporating the artist’s major iconography of the decade, including a melting clock and a burning giraffe, the mural hung in the “dry” portion of the presentation. The adjacent “wet” aquarium featured a burlesque performance that complemented the pavilion’s celebration of classical beauty. The arched passage in this painting was mirrored on the mural’s right side in a panel that remains lost today.

Status

On View, Gallery 395

Department

Modern Art

Artist

Salvador Dalí

Title

Untitled (Dream of Venus) formerly Visions of Eternity

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.

1939

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

none

Dimensions

207 × 117.5 cm (81 1/2 × 46 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro

Reference Number

1987.318

Copyright

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

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