Title from caption on object: “Realistic in Surrealist Form”
March 1963
Artist
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21.9 × 16.6 cm (8 5/8 × 6 9/16 in.)
sheet: 23.1 × 18.1 cm (9 1/8 × 7 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.551
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper: NXP 1370006 ............................. UNIPIX / REALISTIC IN SURREALIST FORM / NEW YORK: SALVADOR DALI, [underlined] ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST / FAMOUS SURREALIST ARTISTS, IS REALISTIC ENOUGH, / BUT A MAGNIFYING GLASS HELD TO HIS NOSE, SHAPES / A SURREALIST IMPRESSION. DALI, WAS A JUDGE FOR / AN AMATEUR ARTIST CONTEST HELD AT ARNOLD / CONSTABLE DEPARTMENT STORE IN NEW YORK. ONE OF / MORE THAN 30,000 "MONA LISA" INTERPRETATIONS / SUBMITTED IN THE CONTEST, IS THE BACKDROP FOR / THE ARTIST'S SURREALISTIC CAPER. / NX-1-2-3 FLEUR ASI-1 LAT-1-2-3-4-5- AUS-1 / CREDIT LINE (UPI PHOTO) 3/6/63 ET