Retrospective Bust of a Woman

Salvador Dalí · 1933 (some elements reconstructed 1970)

This is Retrospective Bust of a Woman, by Salvador Dalí, nineteen thirty-three. The list of what it is made of: painted porcelain, bread, corn, feathers, paint on paper, beads, an ink stand, sand, and two pens. Some of it had to be reconstructed in nineteen seventy, bread being what it is.

Medium Painted porcelain, bread, corn, feathers, paint on paper, beads, ink stand, sand, and two pens · Dimensions 29 x 27 1/4 x 12 5/8" (73.9 x 69.2 x 32 cm) · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest and gift of Philip Johnson (both by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: Object

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Tiari, The Impossible, III, Sleeping Figure, A Happy New Year, Boxwood 6PM, Development of a Bottle in Space

More by Salvador Dalí here: The Persistence of Memory, The Little Theater