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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.

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, JASPAR Tokyo, 2019 E3039
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 Cataluña) by Mariano Fortuny (1838 - 1874) looks tat 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.

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, JASPAR Tokyo, 2019 E3039
Retrospective Bust of a Woman

Salvador Dali
1977
Bronze, mixed media

Retrospective Bust of a Woman
Salvador Dali (1933-1977), bronze/mixed media, 72.0 * 64.0 * 27.0 cm

The original model for this work was shown at a surrealism exhibition held in 1933 in Paris. At the very top is an inkwell patterned after the farm couple in The Angelus (1857-1859, Museo de Orsay) by Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875). Dali attempted to invert the value of food by using it as objects, and in this work he uses a baguette to negate its necessity as food or nutrition.
Venus de Milo with Drawers

Salvador Dali
1936-64
Bronze, ermine

Venus de Milo with Drawers
Salvador Dali (1936-64), bronze/ermine

This work adds drawers to the head, chest, abdomen, and left leg of the famed Venus de Milo (the Louvre, France, Hellenistic Period). It employs the method known as dépaysement (displacement) by combining two completely unrelated motifs. The unlikely figure of the well-known Venus de Milo equipped with drawers fills the viewer with unease.

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.
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, Cézanne, 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.
Vacant Land through a Forest

Paul Cézanne
1867
Oil on canvas

Vacant Land through a Forest
Paul Cézanne

This work was painted during Cézanne’s early period. Here and there in the painting Cézanne 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. Cézanne’s works began to take on an Impressionist character, including use of bright colors, during the 1870s.
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?

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.

List of Dali’s works

Works with red numbers are on exhibit currently.

NO.	Title of work	Year produced	Medium and method
1	Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Dofia Felipa Dome Domenech De Dalí	1920	Oil on canvas
2	The Vegetable Garden of Llaner	1920	Oil on canvas
3	Young Girls in a Garden	1921	Oil on canvas
4	Cabaret Scene	1922	Oil on canvas and board
5	Bread and Walnuts	1925	Oil on board
6	Portrait of Ana Maria Dali	1926	Pencil on paper
7	Portrait of Gala with a Lobster	c. 1934	Oil on board
8	Sweet Corpse	1934	Pencil, pen, and ink on paper
9	Girls with a Press	1937	Ink on paper
10	Allegory of Sunset Ai	1940 - 41	Oil on canvas
11	Visage of Gala	1947	Ink on paper
12	The Three Sphinxes of Bikini (more information)	1947	Oil on canvas
13	Figure in a Landscape	1947	Oil on canvas
14	Nude from the Back	1947	Chalk and charcoal on paper
15	Portrait of Mrs. Jack Warner	1951	Oil on canvas
16	Exploding Head	1952 - 54	Gouache
17	Portrait of Mrs. Ann Woodward	1953	Oil on canvas
18	Landscape	1953 - 54	Watercolor and ink on paper and board
19	Statue of Olympic Zeus	1954	Oil on canvas
20	Anti-Protonic Assumption	1956	Oil on canvas
21	Rock 'n Roll	1957	Oil on canvas
22	Of the Very Monarchical Education of the Young	1959	Watercolor on paper and board
23	The Trinity	1960	Oil on paper and board
24	The Battle of Tetuan (more information)	1962	Oil on canvas
25	Octopus	1963	Ink on paper
26	Landscape with Butterflies and Grapes	1963 - 64	Watercolor on paper and canvas
27	Bold Experiment	1964	Gouache-ink collage
28	Tower with Butterflies	1964	Gouache and pencil on board
29	Muse’s Shadow	1979	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	Marquis de Sade	1968	Color lithograph on paper
8	Carmen	1970	Color lithograph on paper
9	Gargantua and Pantagruel	1973	Color lithograph on washi
10	Les Amours jaunes	1974	Drypoint engraving on paper
11	On Love	1976	Color woodcut, watercolor, and pencil on paper
12	The Alchemy of the Philosophers	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 (more information)	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 (more information)	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	Peacock	1969	Tapestry
3	Souvenir Catalog,Julien Levy Gallery	1936	Print cardboard with fold-out pages and press studs

List of modern Western pictures

Works with red numbers are on exhibit currently.

NO.	Artist	Title of work	Year produced	Medium and method
1	Pablo Picasso	The Frugal Meal	1904	Etching
2	Pablo Picasso	Soldiers	1962	Oil on canvas
3	Pablo Picasso	Artist	1964	Oil on canvas
4	Marie Laurencin	The Dancer	1928	Oil on canvas
5	Marie Laurencin	Composition	1948	Oil on canvas
6	Marie Laurencin	La Lecture	Unknown	Oil on canvas
7	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	Portrait of Madame Maurice Denis (more information)	1904	Oil on canvas
8	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	Laundry Boat by the Banks of the Seine, near Paris (more information)	1872 - 73	Oil on canvas
9	Marc Chagall	Red and Yellow Bouquet	1977	Oil on canvas
10	Marc Chagall	Place du Tertre	1953 - 54	Oil on canvas
11	Maurice Utrillo	Country Road	1918	Oil on board
12	Maurice Utrillo	Rue des Saules à Montmartre	1914	Oil on canvas
13	Maurice de Vlaminck	The Tugboat, Rouen	1912	Oil on canvas
14	Maurice de Vlaminck	The Table	1932	Oil on canvas
15	Tsugouharu Foujita	See Saw	1919	Gouache and gold leaf on paper
16	Tsugouharu Foujita	Mexican Family	1933	Watercolor, gouache, ink, and charcoal on paper and board
17	Joan Miró	Woman Holding an Owl	1970	Oil, gouache, and pencil on washi
18	Joan Miró	The Ladder of Escape	1979	Watercolor on paper and board
19	Armand Guillaumin	Tours de Saint Sulpice	Unknown	Oil on canvas
20	Armand Guillaumin	Agay Bay	1910	Oil on canvas
21	Camille Pissarro	The Goatherd	1882	Gouache
22	Alfred Sisley	Hay Stacks (more information)	1895	Oil on canvas
23	Paul Cézanne	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	Wooded Landscape with Bathing Women (more information)	1899	Oil on board
26	Henri Matisse	Le Bouquet de Belle-Ile	1897	Oil on canvas
27	Georges Rouault	Russian Dancer	1929	Oil on canvas and paper
28	Max Ernst	Gods In Obscuration	1955	Oil on canvas
29	Giorgio de Chirico	Piazza d'Italia	1914	Oil on canvas
30	André Masson	Genesis I	1958	Oil on canvas
31	Jules Pascin	Little Girl with a Hat	1924	Oil on canvas
32	Henri Martin	Peonies	Unknown	Oil on board
33	Maximilien Luce	Girl Doing Laundry	Unknown	Oil on canvas
34	Édouard Vuillard	Nude Seated	1903	Oil on canvas
35	Kees van Dongen	Woman: with Boa	Unknown	Oil on canvas
36	Louis Valtat	Woman in an Armchair	Unknown	Oil on canvas
37	Bernard Buffet	Egg and Cherries	1988	Oil on canvas

Pamela June Crook（British Contemporary Painter）

Works with red numbers are on exhibit currently.

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