Venus de Milo with Drawers

1. The artist; with Private Collection (possibly Cécile Eluard), Paris, 1962 [Descharnes 1962; Descharnes 2000]; with Robert Descharnes, 1962 [Descharnes 2000]; sold to Max Clarac-Sérou, Paris, by 1964 [Tokyo 1964]; sold to Patrick Derom, Brussels, c. 1990; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2005.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Possibly Paris, 101 bis rue de la Tombe-Issoire, June 19, 1936, no cat.
• Possibly Paris, 88 rue de l’Université, Feb. 2, 1939, no cat.
• Possibly New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dalí, Mar. 21–Apr. 17, 1939, no cat. no.
• Paris, Galerie du Dragon, Objet surréaliste 1931–1937, Oct. 20–Dec. 20, 1979, cat. 10. Reproduced with same image from Descharnes 1962.
• Paris, Musée du Louvre, D’après l’antique, Oct. 16, 2000–Jan. 15, 2001, cat. 259.
• St. Petersburg, FL, The Dalí Museum, A Disarming Beauty: The Venus de Milo in 20th-Century Art, Apr. 28–Sept. 9, 2001, cat. 29..
• Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, Sept. 12, 2004–Jan. 16, 2005; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 16–May 15, 2005, cat. 156.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears, Feb. 18–June 12, 2023, no cat.

• Robert M. Coates, “The Art Galleries: Dali–Despiau–Art Young,” The New Yorker (Jan. 4, 1939), 56.
• Leslie Lieber, “The Mystery of Venus’s Arms,” Los Angeles Times (Apr. 3, 1962), 13.
• Robert Descharnes, The World of Salvador Dali (New York: 1962), 167.
• Robert Descharnes, The World of Salvador Dalí (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 167.
• Robert Descharnes, Dalí de Gala, Edita (Lausanne: Edita, 1962), 164-65, 223 (ill.).
• “Dalí presentará una gran exposición en Tokio,” Voluntad (May 8, 1964), 2. Collection Mr. Max Clarac Serou, Paris.
• William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968), 145, fig. 217.
• Robert Descharnes and Clovis Prévost, La Vision artistique et religieuse de Gaudí (Lausanne: Edita, 1969), 8.
• Carlton Lake, In Quest of Dali (New York: Putnam, 1969), 72-74.
• Dalí par Dalí (Montrouge: Draeger, 1970), 73 (ill.).
• G. A. Cevasco, Salvador Dalí: Master of Surrealism and Modern Art (Charlotteville, NY: Story House, 1971), 19.
• Salvador Dalí and André Parinaud, Comment on devient Dalí (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1973), 79, 223, 358.

Inventions of the Monsters

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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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City of Drawers

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Hidden Faces

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