Dalí: Painting & Film
October 14–January 6 | Art of the Americas Building*
Throughout his life and career, renowned surrealist Salvador Dalí maintained a deep connection with film as an artistic medium. He collaborated with movie greats such as Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock, and Walt Disney, and created works influenced by Cecil B. De Mille and the Marx Brothers. Dalí: Painting & Film, coming to Los Angeles, the epicenter of film, aims to illustrate the cinematic influences and elements that are present in Dalí's work as well as the contribution he made to cinema. The exhibition brings together a variety of key pieces from Dalí's oeuvre, incorporating painting, film, photography, sculpture, and texts.
Curators: Matthew Gale, Tate Modern, Dawn Ades and Fèlix Fanés, consultant curators. LACMA Curators: Ilene Fort, American Art, and Sara Cochran, Modern Art.
This exhibition was organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Spain, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The Los Angeles presentation was made possible in part by LACMA’s Wallis Annenberg Director’s Endowment Fund.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Metamorposis of Narcissus, 1937, Salvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989), oil on canvas; 51.1 x 78.1 cm, Tate, purchased 1979, © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society, 2007.
