Apr 14
Salvador Dalí (ESP, May 11, 1904 - 1989)
Venus de Milo aux tiroirs, 1936 prototype: plaster cast w six functional drawers added White painted bronze multiples, 1964
The Julien Levy Gallery in New York exhibited Venus de Milo with Drawers in 1939, before the later addition of pom-poms
“The only difference between immortal Greece and the contemporary era is Sigmund Freud, who discovered that the human body, which was purely neoplatonic in the time of the Greeks, is now full of secret drawers that only psychoanalysis can reveal.” - Dalí
https://www.artic.edu/interactive-features/dali-venus-de-milo-with-drawers
