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

1. Sold by the artist to Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, by 1938 [according to letter from Mrs. Goodspeed dated June 8, 1970 and Chicago 1938 exh. cat.]; given to the Art Institute, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Seventeenth International Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes", April 28–May 30, 1938, cat. 127 (ill.), as Mae West.
• Chicago, The Arts Club, "Salvador Dalí," May 23–June 14, 1941, n.p., cat. 27, as Portrait of Mae West, n.d.
• Winnetka, Ill., New Trier High School, April 23–May 19, 1952.
• Highland Park, Ill., Highland Park Library, June 6–July 9, 1952.
• Brussels, IXe Festival Belge d'Eté, "Savador Dalí," July 1–September 10, 1956, pp. 8 (ill.) and 30, cat. 37 (ill.), as Mae West, 1935.
• Chicago, The Arts Club, "Surrealism: Then and Now," October 1–30, 1958, n.p., cat. 11 (ill.), as Mae West, c. 1934.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Artist Looks at People," November 13, 1958–January 11, 1959, pp. 65–66 (ill.), no cat.
• Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, "Improbable Furniture," March 10–April 10, 1977, pp.6, 10, and 13, no. 2 (ill.), as Mae West, c. 1934; traveled to La Jolla, Calif., La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, May 20–July 6, 1977.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, "Salvador Dalí: retrospective 1920–1980," December 18, 1979–April 21, 1980, pp. 274–75, cat. 208 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24–September 13, 2009, no cat.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Salvador Dali: The Image Disappears", February 18 - June 12, 2023.

• "International Watercolorists," Art News 36 (May 14, 1938), p. 12 (ill.), as Portrait of Mae West.
• Albert R. Morse, Catalog of Works by Salvador Dalí in Public Museum Collections (Cleveland, 1956), pp. 42–43 (ill.), as Mae West, 1936–37.
• Frank Getlein, "The Artist Looks at People: Portrait Show at The Art Institute of Chicago," Art In America XLVI (Winter 1958–59), pp. 65–66 (ill.).
• Franz Schulze, "Art News from Chicago," Art News LVII (January 1959), p. 49 (ill.), as Mae West.
• Fleur Cowles, Case of Dali (London, 1959), p. 219 and facing p. 305 (ill.), as Portrait of Mae West.
• Salvador Dalí, Secret Life of Dalí, trans. By Haakon M Chevalier (New York, 1961), facing p. 279, pl. 12.
• Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 113.
• Sarane Alexandrian, L'art surréaliste (Paris, 1969), pl. 98.
• Albert R. Morse, Salvador Dalí: A Guide to His Works in Public Museums (Cleveland, 1974), p. 5 (ill.).
• Robert Storr, “For Sale: The Elizabeth Goodspeed Chapman Collection,” The Connoisseur 206:82 (February 1981), p. 134 (ill.).
• Jack Hobbs and Richard Salome, The Visual Experience (Worcester, Mass., 1991), p. 125, fig. 10-12.
• "Si tu joues au Génie, tu le deviens," Connaissance des Arts 501 (December 1993), p. 96 (ill.).

Inventions of the Monsters

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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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The Anthropomorphic Tower

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Untitled (Desert Landscape)

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City of Drawers

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Hidden Faces

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