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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Portrait of Joella
Alternate Title:
Retraro de Joella
Image View:
Overall profile view from right side in glass case (part of the artwork)
Creator:
Paul Hamann (German sculptor, 1891-1973); Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AD00235
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1933-1934 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American; Spanish
Style Period:
Surrealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
assemblage (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
oil paint on plaster; wood; glass
Technique:
casting (process); oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
40.5 cm (height) x 17.5 cm (width) x 18.2 cm (depth)
Subjects:
portrait; art appropriation; found objects
Description:
Oil painting on a plaster bust made by German sculptor Paul Hamann, whose signature appears on the back. Salvador Dalí produced three kinds of Surrealist Objects: those involving movement, those known as "dream objects" and the object assemblages. The second type, with no movement and primarily of sculptural value, includes Portrait of Joella, a piece made for exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1934. The exhibition consisted of paintings, objects and a group of painted plaster casts, including Portait of Joella, a pictorial intervention on a plaster portrait of the gallerist’s wife, Joella Lloyd, produced in 1933 with the mediation of Man Ray (who helped produce the bust). (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-DALI-MRS-PJRJ-A0 2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Portrait of Joella