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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Salvador Dali, Le Cabinet Anthropomorphique, 1973
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Salvador Dali

Le Cabinet Anthropomorphique, 1973
Bronze
12 x 24 x 4 in
30.5 x 61 x 10.2 cm
Edition of 330
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Le Cabinet Anthropomorphique is a sculptural expression of one of Dalí’s central Surrealist ideas: the human body as a cabinet of hidden psychological compartments. Inspired by his famous Venus de...
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Le Cabinet Anthropomorphique is a sculptural expression of one of Dalí’s central Surrealist ideas: the human body as a cabinet of hidden psychological compartments. Inspired by his famous Venus de Milo with Drawers, the reclining figure is pierced by drawers that symbolize memory, desire, and the unconscious. Influenced by Sigmund Freud, Dalí transformed classical beauty into a metaphor for the inner mind. Cast in bronze by Foneria Mibrosa, the sculpture unites antiquity, psychoanalysis, and Surrealism, embodying Dalí’s enduring fascination with the hidden structures of the psyche.
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Provenance

Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
Estate of a Swedish private collector
Acquired by the current owner

Literature

Beniamino Levi, The Dalí Universe, 2000, illustration of another cast pp. 80-81.

Robert Descharnes and Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí. Le Dur et le mou, sortilège et

magie des formes, 2004, no. 683, illustration of another cast p. 266.

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