Exhibition dates: 13th June – 4th October 2009
Installation photographs from the latest Winter Masterpieces blockbuster Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire from the media preview on the day the exhibition opened at NGV International, Melbourne. Thank you to Jemma Altmeier, Media and Public Affairs Administrator at the NGV for the invitation. Photographs were taken using a digital camera, tripod and available light.
Fantastic to see my friend and curator of the exhibition, Dr Ted Gott, at the opening. Congratulations on a wonderful show!
Dr Marcus Bunyan
© All photographs copyright Dr Marcus Bunyan 2009 and the National Gallery of Victoria. All rights reserved. Photographs may not be reproduced without permission.
Photographs proceed from the beginning to the end of the exhibition in chronological order.
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Many thankx to the National Gallery of Victoria for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
Entrance to the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
3 panel video installation of the Catalan countryside where Salvador Dali lived. 13 minutes duration
Early work from the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
To the left View of the Cadaques from the Creus Tower 1923; to the right Table in front of the Sea. Homage to Eric Satie 1926 from the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
In the centre The First Days of Spring 1929; to the right Surrealist composition 1928 from the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
The First Days of Spring
1929
Oil on canvas
The Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida
Worldwide Rights: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009
In the USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2009
Installation view with The Age art critic Associate Professor Robert Nelson at centre right and The hand. The remorse of conscience 1930 at far right, from the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
Daddy Longlegs of the evening – Hope!
1940
Oil on canvas
40.6 x 50.8cm
The Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida
Worldwide Rights: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009
In the USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2009
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
The disintegration of The persistence of memory
1952-54
Oil on canvas
25.4 x 33.0cm
The Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida
Worldwide Rights: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009.
In the USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2009
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
Soft self-portrait with grilled bacon
1941
Oil on canvas
61.0 x 51.0cm
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres (0043)
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
Memory of the child-woman
1932
Oil on canvas
99.1 x 120.0cm
The Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida
Worldwide Rights: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009
In the USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2009
Installation view with Memory of the child-woman 1932 at right from the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
Lobster Telephone (installation view)
1936
Jewellery gallery at the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
Alemany and Ertman Incorporated (New York, manufacturer United States late 1940s)
Bleeding world, pendant
1953
Gold, rubies, pearls, diamonds
The Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida
Worldwide Rights: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009
In the USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2009
Televisions with film installation from the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
Philippe Halsman (Latvian/American 1906-1979, worked in France 1931-1940)
Dalí Atomicus
1948, printed 1981
Gelatin silver photograph
26.7 x 34.3 cm
Image rights of Salvador Dalí reserved. Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2009
© Philippe Halsman / Magnum
Installation of black and white photography with Dr Ted Gott, curator of the exhibition, with back to camera at centre
Reproduction of Gala foot. Stereoscopic paintings 1975-76 in an installation using mirrors that would have been originally used to obtain the stereoscopic effect
Final exhibition space from the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989, worked in United States 1940-1948)
The Ecumenical Council
1960
Oil on canvas
299.7 x 254.0cm
The Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida
Worldwide Rights: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VISCOPY, 2009
In the USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2009
Final gallery space from the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne featuring The Ecumenical Council 1960
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Opening hours: Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire is open 7 days a week and until 9pm every Wednesday from 17 June
Tickets
Adult: $23
Concession: $18
Child: $11 (ages 5-15)
Family (2 adults + 3 children): $60
NGV Member Adult: $16
NGV Member Family: $40
Unlimited entry tickets
Adult: $55
Concession: $45
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Art Blart 
Thank you for posting the photos of the exhibition! 🙂 They’ll be very useful as a reference for the essay I’m writing!
Very often I will spend time in front of a group of paintings by one artist or another, and have a reasonably good chance of knowing what he/she was on about. For example when the NGV did blockbusters on the French Impressionists and on the Heidelberg School, I remembered enough from art history at uni, or from reading since, to make intelligent comment throughout the collections.
But that was not at all true for Dali. His images seem surreal (of course) but also psychotic, drunk or from random dreamstates. So it was excellent that the NGV put on an all-day seminar on Dali, bringing together some of the most involved Dali thinkers from Australia and overseas. It became clear that Dali’s symbols were meaningful and carefully thought out.
Even when Dali acted very badly in real life, his huge body of work remains as a testament to an energetic and creative thinker.
Thank you for the kind words and link to my story Marcus!