Bruce, Irene, Susan and I met Barbara and Bill at the MFA in Boston, and Jeff, Amy and Sam surprised us by joining us.
The Focus of our visit was the museum's "Dali: Disruption and Devotion" exhibition, with a huge display of Salvador Dali's art, most of it from the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla, coupled by art which he revered, most from the MFA's permanent collection.
Here is an almost complete photographic capture of the exhibit.
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The Disintegration of the Persitence of Memory
1952-54 |
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Pieter van der Heyden
(after Peiter Bruegel, the Elder)
"Envy" |
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| "Sloth" |
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| "Lust" |
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Phillips Wouwerman
"Knight Vanquishing Time, Death, and Monstrous Demons" 1662 |
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Apparatus and Hand
1927 |
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"The First Days of Spring"
1929 |
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Peiter van der Heyden
(after Peiter Bruegel)
"The Tempatation of St. Anthony" 1556 |
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Self-Portrait (Cadaques) about 1918
(painted when Dali was a teen-ager) |
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"There is a Lot to Existentialize"
Dali, re-working a Goya etching |
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| Goya: "There is a lot to despair" |
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Albrecht Durer
"Four Naked Women" (the Four Witches) 1497 |
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"Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces"
1938 |
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"Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire"
1940 |
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Diego Velazques
"Infana Maria Teresa" 1653 |
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"Valazquez Painting the Infanta Marguerita With the Light
and Shadows of His Own Glory"
1958 |
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"The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can
Be Used as a Table"
1934 |
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Hendrik de Formantiou
"Trompe L'Oell with a Dead Partridge" 1666 |
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Calesz van Dijck
"Still Life with Cheese and Fruit" 1610 |
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| Irene |
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"Still-Life Fast Moving"
1956 |
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Luis Melendez
"Still Life with Bread, Cheese, Ham, and Vegetables"
1772 |
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"Eggs on the Plate Without the Plate"
1932 |
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"The Angel of Port Lligat"
1952 |
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Francisco Goya
"Annunciation" 1785 |
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| Illustration for "Don Quixote" (Miguel de Cervantes) |
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"Sainte Helene a Port Lligat"
1956 |
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"The Ecumenical Council
1960 |
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"Average Atmospherocephallic Bureaucrat in the Act
of Milking a Cranial Harp"
1933 |
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"Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano"
1934 |
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"Suez"
1932 |
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Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts
"Vanitas Still Life" 1667 |
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Francisco Goya
"Time, Truth, and History" 1797 |
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"Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy"
1940 |
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| Susan and Sam |
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Bruce and Sam
A fascinating exhibit.
More of the MFA to come |
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