Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
In a stark desert landscape, an older man sits in the foreground, illuminated, with a newspaper. Arranged evenly across the land behind him, smaller than perspective would indicate, are a faded child holding a hula hoop, a man holding a melting piano, a standing woman, and a figure near the horizon.

A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano

1936

Salvador Dalí Spanish, 1904–1989

Spain

Oil on canvas

Modern Art