Untitled (Desert Landscape)

1. The artist; given to Mary Reynolds (died 1950), Paris, by 1950 [this and the following according to letter from Frank B. Hubacheck, Feb. 17, 1964, in curatorial object file]; by descent to her brother Frank B. Hubachek, Chicago, 1950 [stored with Elizabeth Humes, Rome, 1950–Oct. 1963 according to signed affidavit of Sept. 10, 1963; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale, Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 5–Aug. 24, 2003, cat. 10, as Atmospheric Chair, 1933.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris, Sept. 20, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009, no cat.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears, Feb. 18–June 12, 2023, no cat.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, Mar. 29–July 13, 2025, not in cat.

• Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí 1904-1989. Das Malerische Werk, vol. 1 (Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1993), 231 (ill.), pl. 516, as Ohne Titel (Wüstenlandschaft), Sans titre (Paysage Désertique).
• Stephanie D’Alessandro, “Venus de Milo with Drawers” Museum Studies 32, 1 (2006), 64.
• Paul B. Franklin, “De ou par Mary Reynolds: The Making of a Collection” Étant donné 8 (2007), 78 (ill.), 102.
• Salvador Dalí Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (1910-1964) (Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, 2014: http://www.salvador-dali.org/cataleg_raonat), cat. 378 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, exh. checklist (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), n.p., cat. 10, as Atmospheric Chair, 1933 (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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Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment

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The Anthropomorphic Tower

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City of Drawers

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Hidden Faces

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