This original exhibition Dalí/Duchamp brings together around 80 works, including some of Dalí’s most inspired and technically accomplished paintings and sculptures, and Duchamp’s groundbreaking assemblages and readymades. It will also showcase the less familiar: photographs by Dalí, paintings by Duchamp, correspondence and collaborations between the two artists.
Presented as a conversation taking place through art, this focused exploration offers fresh ways of looking at two figures, radically revising their familiar places in art history. Through the lens of their intriguing friendship, visitors will gain a new perspective on two equally inventive, intelligent and irreverent minds. The exhibition is curated by Dawn Ades and William Jeffett, with Sarah Lea and Desiree de Chair.
The exhibition has been organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and The Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida, in collaboration with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation and the Association Marcel Duchamp.
Work(s) loaned:
The Lane to Port Lligat with View of Cape Creus
Figure in Flames
The Bather
The Basket of Bread
Anthropomorphic Beach (fragment)
The Enigma of William Tell with the Apparition of a Celestial Gala
Catalan Bread
Chess Set
Meditation on the Harp
Nature Morte Vivante (Still Life—Fast Moving)
The First Days of Spring
Surrealist Object Functioning Symbolically-Gala’s Shoe
Morphological Echo
Gradiva
William Tell Group
Le Crane (Skull)
Prints from Ten Recipes of Immortality