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Explanation note
The Three Sphinxes of Bikini

Salvador Dali
1947
Oil on canvas

The Three Sphinxes of Bikini
Salvador Dali (1947), oil on canvas, 40.6 * 51.4 cm

Dali was shocked when the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. After that, he produced works on the themes of nuclear science and quantum mechanics, proposing to declare the secrets of the nucleus to fuse classical art with science. This work likens traditional monster of the sphinx to the back of the human head, with hair patterned on the mushroom clouds of the atomic bombs. It uses Dali’s specialty of producing optical illusions through double images to suggest the dangers of scientific progress.
Explanation note
The Battle of Tetuan

Salvador Dali
1962
Oil on canvas

Battle of Tetuan
Salvador Dali (1962), oil on canvas, 304.0 * 396.0 cm

This major piece inspired by the Battle of Tetuan (1862 - 1864, in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluna) by Mariano Fortuny (1838 - 1874) looks that the theme of Spain’s military occupation of Morocco in 1860. Dali and his wife Gala are depicted amid the soldiers on horseback. The figure of Gala valiantly waving a sword would seem to symbolize her efforts as the manager who guided Dali to the status of a world-renowned artist.
The Dance : The Seven Lively Arts

Salvador Dali
c.1957
Oil on canvas

The Dance : The Seven Lively Arts
Salvador Dali (c.1957), Oil on canvas
Portrait of Gala with Lobster

Salvador Dali
c.1933
Oil on wood

Portrait of Gala with Lobster
Salvador Dali (c.1933), Oil on wood

Portrait of the Artists Mother,Dona Felipa Dome Domenech de Dalí

Salvador Dali
1920
Oil on canvas

Portrait of the Artists Mother,Dona Felipa Dome Domenech de Dalí
Salvador Dali (1920), Oil on canvas
Audace

Salvador Dali
c.1971
Gouache, ink, collage on paper

Audace
Salvador Dali (c.1971), Gouache, ink, collage on paper
Portrait of Anna Maria Dalí

Salvador Dali
1926
Pencil on paper

Portrait of Anna Maria Dalí
Salvador Dali (1926), Pencil on paper
Girls in a garden

Salvador Dali
1919-21
Oil on canvas

Girls in a garden
Salvador Dali (1919-21), Oil on canvas

Explanation note
Portrait of Madame Maurice Denis

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1904
Oil on canvas

Portrait of Madame Maurice Denis
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1904), oil on canvas

The subject of this painting is Marthe Denis, the wife of Renoir’s friend the Nabis painter Maurice Denis (the Nabis painters popular in France at the end of the 19th century were characterized by flat, decorative pictures influenced by the late Impressionist Paul Gauguin). While the model boldly exposes a shoulder, the work is tinged overall with a mild feeling. This can be described as an excellent example of the works of Renoir, who specialized in depicting graceful women bathed in light.
Explanation note
Hay Stacks

Alfred Sisley
1895
Oil on canvas

Hay Stacks
Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley was born in Paris as the son of a wealthy English merchant. Although he went to England at age 18 to study business, he returned to Paris to become an artist. In 1874 he joined with Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, and others to stage the first Impressionist exhibition.
This work is thought to depict a scene in the vicinity of Moret-sur-Loing, the village where Sisley spent the final 10 years of his life. It is considered a rare work because it was unusual for Sisley to choose hay as a subject.
Explanation note
Vacant Land through a Forest

Paul Cezanne
1867
Oil on canvas

Vacant Land through a Forest
Paul Cezanne

This work was painted during Cezanne’s early period. Here and there in the painting Cezanne employed the technique of using his palette knife to daub thick layers of paint on the canvas, and he uses black to depict the dense woods. A great many of his works created during the 1860s use black, and that decade even has been called his Romantic period. Cezanne’s works began to take on an Impressionist character, including use of bright colors, during the 1870s.
Explanation note
Peasant Woman, Half-Figure, Sitting

Vincent Van Gogh
1884-1885
Oil on canvas

Peasant Woman, Half-Figure, Sitting
Vincent Van Gogh (1884-1885), oil on canvas and board

Around the years 1884-85, van Gogh created numerous works in which peasants served as models, reflecting the influence of Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875, a 19th-century French painter whose subjects included peasants and rural landscapes). This is one of his works from that period.
It depicts a peasant woman staring forward with a severe expression. One can sense her nervousness at serving as a model from the way her hands are clasped tightly together and the look on her face. The dark tones and grave surface of the painting convey the tough life of a peasant.

Who was Salvador Dali?

Salvador Dali

Spanish-born Salvador Dali was one of the most versatile painters of the 20th century.
From when he first painted a landscape in oil at age six through his late 70s, he continued a truly broad range of expressive activities including not just painting but also sculpture, prints, stage and fashion design, and film production.
Many people probably recall seeing one of Dali’s paintings in art textbooks or elsewhere: The Persistence of Memory, famous for its soft melting pocket watches.

Salvador Dali, 1954
Photo by Philippe Halsman © The Philippe Halsman Archive

List of Dali’s works

*Exhibits: Number with a red

NO.	Title of work	Year produced	Medium and method
1	Portrait of the Artists Mother,Dona Felipa Dome Domenech de Dalí	1920	Oil on canvas
2	Vegetable Garden at Es Llaner-Petit	c.1919	Oil on canvas
3	Girls in a Garden	c.1919	Oil on canvas
4	Cabaret Scene	1922	Oil on canvas and board
5	Bread and Walnuts	1925	Oil on board
6	Portrait of Anna Maria Dalí	1926	Pencil on paper
7	Portrait of Gala with Lobster	c. 1933	Oil on board
8	Exquisite Corpse	1934	Pencil, pen, and ink on paper
9	The women with drawers	1937	Ink on paper
10	Allegory of the Sunset Air	1940	Oil on canvas
11	Visage of Gala	1947	Ink on paper
12	The Three Sphinxes of Bikini (more information)	1947	Oil on canvas
13	Untitled. Landscape	1947	Oil on canvas
14	Female Nude from the Back	1947	Chalk and charcoal on paper
15	Portrait of Mrs. Jack Warner	1951	Oil on canvas
16	Head Exploding	1952 - 54	Gouache
17	Portrait of Ann Woodward	1953	Oil on canvas
18	Gala Architecture	1953 - 54	Watercolor and ink on paper and board
19	The Statue of Olympian Zeus	1954	Oil on canvas
20	Anti-protonic Assumupta	1956	Oil on canvas
21	The Dance : The Seven Lively Arts	1957	Oil on canvas
22	Of the Very Monarchical Education of the Young	1959	Watercolor on paper and board
23	Adoration of The Holy Trinity by Three Archbishop	1960	Gouache on paper
24	The Battle of Tetuan (more information)	1962	Oil on canvas
25	An octopus	1963	Ink on paper
26	Landscape with Butterflies and Grapes	1963 - 64	Watercolor on paper and canvas
27	Audace	c. 1971	Gouache-ink collage
28	Tower with Butterflies	1964	Gouache and pencil on board
29	Obres de Museu	1980	Lithograph, bronze, etc.

NO.	Title of work	Year produced	Medium and method
1	Don Quixote	1957	Color lithograph on paper
2	Dante’s Divine Comedy: Hell	1960	Lithograph and color woodcut on paper
3	Dante’s Divine Comedy: Purgatory	1960	Lithograph and color woodcut on paper
4	Dante’s Divine Comedy: Heaven	1960	Lithograph and color woodcut on paper
5	Dante’s Divine Comedy: Purgatory (production process)	1960	Lithograph and color woodcut on paper
6	Casanova	1967	Engraving on paper
7	Three Plays by the Marquis de Sade	1968	Color lithograph on paper
8	Carmen	1970	Color lithograph on paper
9	The Drolatic Dreams op Pantagruel	1973	Color lithograph on washi
10	The Yellow Loves	1974	Drypoint engraving on paper
11	On Love	1976	Color woodcut, watercolor, and pencil on paper
12	Philosophers’ Alchemy	1976	Color lithograph and silkscreen on resin and paper
13	24 Themes of Surrealism	1977 - 78	Color lithograph on paper

NO.	Title of work	Year produced	Medium and method
1	Venus de Milo with Drawers	1936 - 64	Bronze and ermine
2	Birdman	1968	Bronze
3	Nobility of Time	1975 - 84	Bronze
4	Space Elephant	1980	Bronze and resin
5	The Hallucinogenic Toreador	1976 - 86	Bronze
6	Surrealist Object that Functions Symbolically	1932 - 75	Leather, wood, stone, glass, photographs, fur, lace, etc.
7	The Premonition of the Drawers	1973	Bronze and timepieces
8	The Persistence of Memory	1980 - 84	Bronze and marble
9	Butterfly and Flames	1965	Bronze
10	Retrospective Bust of a Woman	1977	Bronze and mixed media
11	The Yin and the Yang	1968	Bronze and marble
12	Homage to Newton	1969	Bronze
13	Violin	1966	Bronze
14	Newton Without Arms	1968	Bronze
15	Hysterical and Aerodynamic Nude	1934 - 73	Bronze and marble
16	Spoon Chair	1970	Bronze
17	Lilith and the Double Victory of Samothrace	1966	Bronze
18	The Anthropomorphic Cabinet	1982	Bronze
19	The Profile of Time	1977 - 84	Bronze
20	Homage to Terpsichore	1979 - 84	Bronze
21	Woman in Flames	1980	Bronze
22	Snail and the Angel	1977 - 84	Bronze
23	Atavistic Vestiges After the Rain	1969	Bronze and marble
24	Beatrice	1966	Bronze and rhodochrosite
25	Death Mask of Napoleon	1970	Bronze
26	The Javanese Mannequin	1963	Bronze and marble
27	Vision of the Angel	1977 - 84	Bronze
28	St. George and the Dragon	1977 - 84	Bronze
29	Space Venus	1977 - 84	Bronze
30	Unicorn	1977 - 84	Bronze
31	Venus as a Giraffe	1973 - 88	Bronze
32	Alice in Wonderland	1977 - 84	Bronze
33	Swan-Elephant	1967	Bronze
34	Woman with a Head of Roses	1981	Bronze and resin
35	Nude with Hand Behind Head	1976	Bronze and wood
36	Michelin Slave	1966	Bronze
37	After Bracceli	1982	Bronze

NO.	Title of work	Year produced	Medium and method
1	Head of a Woman	1981	Ceramic board
2	Argus	1969	Tapestry
3	SOUVENIR CATALOGUE, JULIEN LEVY GALLERY, 1936	1936	Print cardboard with fold-out pages and press studs
4	BD BARCELONA LEDA ARMCHAIR	2010	Structure in cast polished varnished brass

List of Philippe Halsman’s works *For more information

List of Philippe Halsman’s works

*Exhibits: Number with a red

NO.	Artist	Title of work	Year produced(original/modern print)	Medium and method(original/modern print)
1	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
2	Yvonne Halsman	The Interview	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
3	Philippe Halsman	Portrait of Salvador Dalí	1941-42/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
4	Philippe Halsman	Magnifying Glass Portrait	1944/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
5	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí, Pre-Natal Memory	1941/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
6	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí, St. Regis Hotel, New York, Contact Sheets	1942/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
7	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí drawing in bed, St. Regis Hotel, New York	1942/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
8	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí drawing in bed with a projector, St. Regis Hotel, New York	1942/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
9	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí painting the head of Medusa on Gala’s forehead, St. Regis Hotel, New York	1942/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
10	Philippe Halsman	Costume Design by Salvador Dalí for the ballet Labyrinth	1941/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
11	Philippe Halsman	Head on Table (variant)	1943/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
12	Philippe Halsman	Serenade on Ladder	1941/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
13	Philippe Halsman	Because I Love Art	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
14	Philippe Halsman	Nature Gave Me My Best Tools	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
15	Philippe Halsman	My Hairspring, Of Course	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
16	Philippe Halsman	A Paragon of Beauty	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
17	Philippe Halsman	Mona Lisa Philippe Halsman	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
18	Philippe Halsman	I Personally Indulge in Atomic Explosions, working process	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
19	Philippe Halsman	I Personally Indulge in Atomic Explosions	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
20	Philippe Halsman	Popcorn Nude Variant with Helen, Jane, and Irene	1949/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
21	Philippe Halsman	Popcorn Nude	1949/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
22	Philippe Halsman	Dalí Atomicus	1948/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
23	Philippe Halsman	Dalí Atomicus 6 contacts composite	1948/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
24	Yvonne Halsman	Dalí “Explosion”, working process	1953/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
25	Philippe Halsman	Dalí “Explosion”	1953/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
26	Philippe Halsman	Cyclops	1953/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
27	Philippe Halsman	Surrealism is Myself, working process	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
28	Philippe Halsman	Surrealism is Myself	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
29	Philippe Halsman	Marilyn Mao	1967/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
30	Philippe Halsman	Picasso/Dalí	1952/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
31	Philippe Halsman	Light Sculpture, working process	1950/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
32	Philippe Halsman	Light Sculpture	1950/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
33	Philippe Halsman	Dalí and Gun	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
34	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
35	Philippe Halsman	Dalí with Dandelion, Negative (Dalí’s Mustache book outtake)	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
36	Philippe Halsman	Dalí and Baby (Dalí’s Mustache book outtake)	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
37	Philippe Halsman	In Order to Pass Unobserved	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
38	Philippe Halsman	Like Two Erect Sentries, My Mustache Defends the Entrance to My Real Self	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
39	Philippe Halsman	I Am Completely Mobile / Philippe Halsman Self Portrait	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
40	Philippe Halsman	I Am Completely Mobile, working process	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
41	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí, working process	1954/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
42	Philippe Halsman	In Voluptate Mors, Contact Sheets	1951/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
43	Philippe Halsman	In Voluptate Mors	1951/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
44	Philippe Halsman	Leopard Skull (Collaboration with Salvador Dalí)	1951/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
45	Philippe Halsman	Port Lligat Helicopter	1964/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
46	Yvonne Halsman	Port Lligat Helicopter, working process	1964/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
47	Philippe Halsman	Portrait of Salvador Dalí for Boy’s Life magazine	1964/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
48	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí’s Costume Design for an Artists Fashion Contest (Roof of the Roxy Theater)	1953/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
49	Philippe Halsman	Portrait of Salvador Dalí with ocelot, dollar bills and coins	1965/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
50	Philippe Halsman	Fantastic Voyage	1965/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
51	Philippe Halsman	After ‘Las Meninas’ by Diego Velazquez	1965/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
52	Philippe Halsman	Dalí ’56, CBS Morning Show	1956/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
53	Philippe Halsman	Dalí ’56, CBS Morning Show, Contact Sheet	1956/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
54	Philippe Halsman	Tuna Fishing	1970/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
55	Philippe Halsman	Dalí dressed as Santa Claus, New York	1965/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
56	Philippe Halsman	Salvador Dalí, Port Lligat	1964/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
57	Philippe Halsman	Midsummer’s Night Mare	1949/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
58	Philippe Halsman	One-Eyed Bandit	1966/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
59	Philippe Halsman	Cross Lighting	1967/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print
60	Philippe Halsman	The Last Portrait	1978/2020	Gelatin silver print/Giclee print

*NO.2・24・36：photographed by Yvonne Halsman (wife of Philippe Halsman)
*NO.1 and 34 are the same year and the same title, but the composition is different.

List of modern Western pictures

*Exhibits: Number with a red

NO.	Artist	Title of work	Year produced	Medium and method
1	Pablo Picasso	The Frugal Repast	1904	Etching
2	Pablo Picasso	Warrior	1962	Oil on canvas
3	Pablo Picasso	The Painter Ⅳ,01-11-1964	1964	Oil on canvas
4	Marie Laurencin	Dancer	1928	Oil on canvas
5	Marie Laurencin	Composition	1948	Oil on canvas
6	Marie Laurencin	Reading	Unknown	Oil on canvas
7	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	Madame Maurice Denis (more information)	1904	Oil on canvas
8	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	The Boat on the Seine River, a Suburb of Paris (more information)	1872 - 73	Oil on canvas
9	Marc Chagall	Yellow Bouquet and Red Bouquet	1977	Oil on canvas
10	Marc Chagall	Place du Tertre	1953 - 54	Oil on canvas
11	Maurice Utrillo	Old Country Road	1918	Oil on board
12	Maurice Utrillo	The Saules Street in Montmartre	1914	Oil on canvas
13	Maurice de Vlaminck	Tugboat in Rouen	1912	Oil on canvas
14	Maurice de Vlaminck	Cuisine on a Table	1932	Oil on canvas
15	Tsugouharu Foujita	Seesaw	1919	Gouache and gold leaf on paper
16	Tsugouharu Foujita	Mexican Family	1933	Watercolor, gouache, ink, and charcoal on paper and board
17	Joan Miro	Woman catching an Owl	1970	Oil, gouache, and pencil on washi
18	Joan Miro	The Ladders of pastime	1979	Watercolor on paper and board
19	Armand Guillaumin	The Time Tower of Saint Sulpice	Unknown	Oil on canvas
20	Armand Guillaumin	Agay Bay	1910	Oil on canvas
21	Camille Pissarro	Cattleman's Daughter on Pontoise Hill	1882	Gouache
22	Alfred Sisley	Haystacks (more information)	1895	Oil on canvas
23	Paul Cezanne	Vacant Land through a Forest (more information)	1867	Oil on paper and board
24	Vincent van Gogh	Peasant Woman, Half-Figure, Sitting (more information)	1884 - 85	Oil on canvas and board
25	Pierre Bonnard	The Landscape of Bathers in a Wood (more information)	1899	Oil on board
26	Henri Matisse	The Flower of Bell-île	1897	Oil on canvas
27	Georges Rouault	The Dancer of the Russian Ballet	1929	Oil on canvas and paper
28	Max Ernst	Gods in the Dark	1957	Oil on canvas
29	Giorgio de Chirico	Italian Square	1914	Oil on canvas
30	Andre Masson	Genesis I	1958	Oil on canvas
31	Jules Pascin	The Girl has a Hat	1924	Oil on canvas
32	Henri Martin	The Vase of Peony	Unknown	Oil on board
33	Maximilien Luce	Girl Doing Laundry	Unknown	Oil on canvas
34	Edouard Vuillard	Sitting Nude	1903	Oil on canvas
35	Kees van Dongen	The Woman with Boa	Unknown	Oil on canvas
36	Louis Valtat	The Young Woman sitting on an Armrest	Unknown	Oil on canvas
37	Bernard Buffet	Shell, Ostrich's Egg and Cherries	1988	Oil on canvas

List of PJ Crook’s works

*Exhibits: Number with a red

NO.	Title of work	Year produced	Medium and method
1	City	1993	Acrylic on canvas
2	Cherry and white	1994	Acrylic on canvas
3	The collector	1995	Acrylic on canvas
4	Green door	1995	Oil on canvas
5	Red door	1995	Oil on canvas
6	Window on the street	1995	Ink on paper
7	Window on the courtyard	1995	Ink on paper
8	Breakfast in bed	1995	Acrylic on canvas
9	The window	1995	Acrylic on canvas
10	Food on the street (fish and chips)	1995	Acrylic on canvas
11	Foreign correspondent	1995	Acrylic on canvas
12	Paper making woman	1995	Acrylic on canvas
13	Cutting	1995	Acrylic on board
14	Dreaming	1995	Acrylic on canvas
15	Orientals	1995	Oil on canvas
16	The fleet	1995	Acrylic on canvas
17	Deadline	1995	Acrylic on canvas
18	Paper hat	1995	Acrylic on canvas
19	Cinema	1995	Oil on canvas
20	Personal column	1995	Acrylic on canvas
21	Time is, Time was	2001	Acrylic on canvas
22	Ever Green	2001	Acrylic on canvas
23	JAPONICA	2001	Acrylic on canvas and board
24	Badger	2013	Tinted gesso on canvas and painted wooden frame
25	Fox	2015	Tinted gesso on canvas and painted wooden frame
26	Hare	2015	Tinted gesso on canvas and painted wooden frame
27	Owl	2016	Tinted gesso on canvas and painted wooden frame
28	Geiko and Maiko	2016 (Original painting 2005 by PJ Crook)	Woodcut print, hand-coloured on paper　　Woodcut by Richard Parker Crook
29	Geiko and Maiko (Multicolor)	2016 (Original painting 2005 by PJ Crook)	Woodcut print, hand-coloured on paper　　Woodcut by Richard Parker Crook
30	Stepping out	2017	Mixed media（Gesso,wooden frame, high heels, taxidermy）
31	Metamorphoses	2018	Tinted gesso with matte medium on wood