City of Drawers

1. Private collection, England [Rotterdam, 1970]. Sold by Walter Goetz (1911-1995), Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Santa Barbara, University of California, “Surrealism: A State of Mind,” Feb. 26-Mar. 27, 1966, cat. 37 (ill.).
• Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, “Dalí,” Nov. 21, 1970-Jan. 10, 1971, cat. 110 (ill.).
• Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden, “Dalí,” Jan. 29-Apr. 18, 1971, p. 213. cat. 91.
• Denmark, Humlebaek Museum, “Dalí,” Sept. 29-Nov. 25, 1973, cat. 56 (ill.); also Stockholm, De. 26, 1973-Feb. 13, 1974 and Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Mar. 14-May 5, 1974.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, “Salvador Dalí,” Dec. 18, 1979-Apr. 21, 1980, cat. 200 (ill.); also the Tate Gallery, London, May 14-June 29, 1980.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," Nov. 28, 1984-Jan. 27, 1985.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 210-211, cat. 99 (ill.); also The St. Louis Art Museum, Mar. 10–May 16, 1986.
• Vienna, Künstlerhaus, “Zauber der Medusa: europäische Manierismen,” Apr. 3-July 12, 1987, pp. 572-573, cat. 31 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display," Jan. 30-Apr. 28, 1992, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Shatter, Rupture, Break," Feb. 15-May 3, 2015.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Salvador Dali: The Image Disappears", February 18 - June 12, 2023.

• Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Dalí (New York, 1964) (ill.).
• Michael Canney, “Surrealism & Dada Revisited,” Art International X:5 (May 1966), p. 21 (ill.).
• A. R. Morse, Salvador Salvador Dalí: A Guide to His Works in Public Museums (Cleveland, Ohio, 1974), p. 6 (ill.).
• Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí (New York, 1976), p. 11, fig. 120.
• Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean, Drawing from Life (Fort Worth, 1992), p. 255 (ill.).
• Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret, Savador Dalí, 1904-1989: The Paintings 1904-1946 (New York, 1997), p. 278 and 756, no. 625 (ill.).

Inventions of the Monsters

Art Institute of Chicago

Venus de Milo with Drawers

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A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano

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Untitled (Dream of Venus) formerly Visions of Eternity

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

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The Anthropomorphic Tower

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Untitled (Desert Landscape)

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Hidden Faces

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