By swapping the positions of the nose and ear on this plaster cast of a classical bust of the goddess Venus, Dalí has made the impossible possible and has created a highly personal surrealist work. This is a reconstruction of the original sculpture from 1964 made by the museum with the artist's permission in 1970, the year of the major Dalí exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Specifications
| Title | Tête otorhinologique de Vénus |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Plaster |
| Object type |
Sculpture
> Three-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Width 54 cm Height 70,5 cm Depth 41 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Salvador Dalí
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| Accession number | BEK 1466 (MK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1970 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1970 |
| Creation date | in 1964 (1970) |
| Entitled parties | © Salvador Dalí, Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2022 |
| Provenance | Services techniques et commerciaux de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam 1970-71; Rotterdam 1984; Stuttgart/Zurich/Humlebaek 1989-90; Rotterdam 2013-14a; Rotterdam 2017b |
| Internal exhibitions |
Het voorbeeld van de klassieken (1984) The Collection Enriched (2011) Een paraplu, een naaimachine en een ontleedtafel. Surrealisme à la Dalí in Rotterdam. (2013) Collectie - surrealisme (2017) |
| External exhibitions |
Dal nulla al sogno (2018) A Surreal Shock. Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2023) Dalí, Magritte, Man Ray and Surrealism. Highlights from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2023) Surrealist Art - Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021) A Surreal Shock – Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021) Only the Marvelous is Beautiful (2022) |
| Research |
Show research Digitising Contemporary Art Show research A dream collection - Surrealism in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |
| Literature | Rotterdam 1970, cat. no. 191; Ades 1982, p. 169, fig. 140; Stuttgart/Zurich 1989, p. 377, cat. no. 286; Descharnes 1997, p. 378; R. Descharnes/N. Descharnes 2003, pp. 34-35, fig. 62 |
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| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Spain > Southern Europe > Europe |
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