![]() ![]() In this little town we saw an Art Shop, a cheap tourist shop with a lot of bright flashy tourist pictures – flowers and fruit – just awful. This is how Alfred and I got the idea of the double image. ![]() When he turned it vertically what we saw was the large head of a woman – the tent was her chin, the figures her features. Natives in front of a big white tent, leaning, sitting, lying, etc. ![]() Dali showed us a postcard of one of the colonies in Africa. We all went into the back room and saw a big painting with an opalescent sky – The Masturbator. He had no suit jacket and wore a raincoat over his shirt. We went to the Pierre Colle Gallery in the Rue de la Boétie where there was a show of Dali’s. Margaret Barr remembers:Īlfred and I were in Paris in 1931, going around to the galleries. Modern interest in Arcimboldo dates from his inclusion, by means of enlarged photographs, in the exhibition ‘Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism’, organised by Alfred Barr at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1936. Four hundred years after his return to Milan from Prague in 1587, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) is having his first one-man show at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice: 15 February until 31 May. ![]()
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