Venus de Milo with Drawers
Salvador Dalí Spanish, 1904–1989
1936
On view — Gallery 395 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Among Salvador Dalí’s many memorable works, perhaps none is more deeply embedded in the popular imagination than Venus de Milo with Drawers , a half-size plaster reproduction of the famous marble statue (130 /120 BC; Musée du Louvre, Paris), altered with pom-pom-decorated drawers in the figure’s…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Painted plaster with metal pulls and mink pom-poms
- Dimensions
- 98 × 32.5 × 34 cm (38 5/8 × 12 3/4 × 13 3/8 in.)
- Origin
- Spain