Untitled (Dream of Venus) formerly Visions of Eternity

1. Commissioned by Dali World’s Fair (DWF) Company for the New York World’s Fair, Apr. 10, 1939 [DWF Co. contract, Apr. 10, 1939, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, copy in curatorial object file]. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, by 1966 [Letter from Joseph Shapiro, Dec. 6, 1987, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Feb. 23-Apr. 14, 1985, cat. 32, as Visions of Eternity, 1936/37.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, La Revolution Surrealiste, Feb. 27– June 24, 2002, no cat. no.; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfahlen, July 20–Nov. 24, 2002, as Vision de l'éternité, 1936–1937.
• Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Salvador Dalí, Sept. 12, 2004–Jan.16, 2005, cat. 171; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 6–May 15, 2005 (Philadelphia only), as Untitled (Vision of Eternity).
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no., as Visions of Eternity.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears, Feb. 18–June 12, 2023, no cat.
• New York, Di Donna Gallery, Dalí: The Great Years, 1929-1939, Apr. 16-June 13, 2026, no cat. no., as Untitled (Dream of Venus).

• Katherine Kuh and Dennis Adrian, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), 45, fig. 30, cat. 32 (color ill.), 109, cat. 32, as Visions of Eternity, 1936/37.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1987-88, pp. 9, 71, pl. 15, as Vision of Eternity.
• Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí 1904-1989. Das Malerische Werk, vol 1 (Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1993), 286, cat. 640, as Sans titre, connu comme Vision de l’éternité.
• Werner Spies, La Revolution Surrealiste, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2002), 260 (color ill.), 433.
• Dawn Ades, Michael R. Taylor, and Montserrat Aguer, Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York : Rizzoli ; Philadelphia : In association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004), 279, cat. 171 (color ill.), as Untitled (Vision of Eternity, 1936-37).
• Robert Rosenblum, Salvador Dalí: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Artforum, 43, no. 10 (Summer 2005), 320, (color ill.).
• Stephanie D’Alessandro and Renée DeVoe Mertz, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), 128 (color ill.).
• Kyle MacMillan, “Art Institute Exhibit Hoping to Rescue Salvador Dali’s Artistic Reputation,” Chicago Sun Times, Feb. 15, 2002, 20 (color ill.), 21.
• Jacqui Palumbo, “Two art curators had a mystery on their hands. Was an unusual Dalí painting actually his?” CNN Style, Feb. 24, 2023 (color ill.), http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/salvador-dali-art-institute-of-chicago-dream-of-venus/index.html
• Dawn Ades and Emmanuel Di Donna, Dalí: The Great Years, 1929-1939, exh. cat. (New York: Di Donna Galleries, 2026), 118, 119 (color ill.), 120-121 (color ill; detail), 131 (color ill.), as Untitled (Dream of Venus).

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