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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936

Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989)

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© Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation; used with permission of Philadelphia Museum of Art

Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989). Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936. Oil on canvas. 39 5/16 x 39 3/8 in. (99.9 x 100 cm). The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950. 1950-134-41. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

© Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

About the show:

Commissioned by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueres, Spain, in celebration of the centennial of the artist's birth, Dalí was a major retrospective exhibition. Over 200 paintings and three dimensional objects traced Dalí's career from early Cubist-inspired works, through his famous Surrealist phase and well into his Classic period after World War II.

Dalí was organized by the Palazzo Grassi, Venice and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with support from the Salvador Dalí Museum of Saint Petersburg, Florida, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

To read a full review of the exhibition as seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, please see Dalí by Stan Parchin.

Scheduled Venues:

Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy: September 12, 2004-January 16, 2005
Philadelphia Museum of Art: February 16-May 30, 2005

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