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Lobster Telephone, 1936
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)
Plastic, painted plaster and mixed media; 7 x 13 x 7 in. (17.8 x 33 x 17.8 cm)
Tate. Purchased 1981
©2002 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937
Oil on canvas; 20 1/8 x 30 3/4 in. (51.1 x 78.1 cm)
Tate. Purchased 1979
Men Shall Know Nothing of This, 1923
Max Ernst (French, born Germany, 1891–1976)
Oil on canvas; 31 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. (80.6 x 64.1 cm)
Tate. Purchased 1960
©2002 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Pietà or Revolution by Night, 1923
Oil on canvas; 45 5/8 x 35 in. (115.9 x 88.9 cm)
The Robing of the Bride, 1940
Oil on canvas; 51 x 38 in. (129.6 x 96.5 cm)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
The Rape, 1934
René Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967)
Oil on canvas; 28 7/8 x 21 1/2 in. (73.3 x 54.6 cm)
The Menil Collection, Houston
©2002 Charly Herscovici, Brussels/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Winged Domino: Portrait of Valentine, 1938
Roland Penrose (British, 1900–1984)
Oil on canvas; 23 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (60 x 46 cm)
Private collection
Birthday, 1942
Dorothea Tanning (American, born 1910)
Oil on canvas; 40 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (102.2 x 64.8 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Purchased with funds contributed by Charles K. Williams II, 1999