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"accession_number": "2001.34",
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"tombstone": "The Dream, 1931. Salvador Dal\u00ed (Spanish, 1904\u20131989). Oil on canvas; framed: 120 x 120 x 7.7 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.); unframed: 96 x 96 cm (37 13/16 x 37 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2001.34. \u00a9 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
"current_location": "225 German Expressionism & Surrealism",
"title": "The Dream",
"creation_date": "1931",
"creation_date_earliest": 1931,
"creation_date_latest": 1931,
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"technique": "oil on canvas",
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"department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 120 x 120 x 7.7 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 96 x 96 cm (37 13/16 x 37 13/16 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"id": 227242,
"title": "La R\u00e9volution surr\u00e9aliste",
"description": "La R\u00e9volution surr\u00e9aliste. Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris cedex O4, France (organizer) (March 6-June 24, 2002).",
"opening_date": "2002-03-06T00:00:00"
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"title": "Dal\u00ed",
"description": "Dal\u00ed. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (September 12, 2004-January 16, 2005); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (February 16-May 30, 2005).",
"opening_date": "2004-09-12T00:00:00"
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"title": "CMA Highlights",
"description": "CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005).",
"opening_date": "2005-06-21T00:00:00"
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).",
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"id": 206339,
"title": "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaud\u00ed, Mir\u00f3, Dal\u00ed (1868-1939)",
"description": "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaud\u00ed, Mir\u00f3, Dal\u00ed (1868-1939). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (March 4-June 3, 2007).",
"opening_date": "2006-10-15T00:00:00"
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"title": "Surr\u00e9alisme",
"description": "Surr\u00e9alisme. Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris cedex O4, France (organizer) (September 4, 2024-January 13, 2025).",
"opening_date": "2024-09-04T04:00:00"
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"id": 683149,
"title": "Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100",
"description": "Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (November 8, 2025-February 16, 2026) https://philamuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/dreamworld-surrealism.",
"opening_date": "2025-11-08T05:00:00"
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"description": "CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 21, 2005 - September 11, 2005).",
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"description": "Vicomte Charles [1891-1981] and Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles [1902-1970], Paris, by exchange to F\u00e9lix Labisse",
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"The Vicomte Charles de Noailles, Dal\u00ed's most important patron during his early Surrealist years, may have purchased the painting directly from Dal\u00ed, although further research is required to confirm or disprove this speculation. The Noailles certainly owned the painting by 1931, when they are listed as its owners in an exhibition at the Galerie Pierre Colle in Paris.
"
],
"date": "c. 1930 - c. 1945-1951",
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"description": "F\u00e9lix Labisse [1905-1982], Neuilly-sur-Seine, France",
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"Fran\u00e7oise Hersaint, wife of Surrealist collector Claude Hersaint and good friend of Labisse, thought that Labisse had acquired The Dream from the Noailles by exchange between 1945 and 1951, and recalled that when she first visited Labisse's home in 1952, the painting was already in his collection. Labisse certainly had the painting by 1956, when he is listed as its owner in a Dal\u00ed exhibition at the Casino de Knokke in Belgium.
"
],
"date": "By 1952 - at least 1972",
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},
{
"description": "Gerrit Lansing [1942-2010] New York",
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"date": "Before 1999",
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},
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"description": "Daniel Filipacchi [b. 1928] Paris/New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art \nTransfer Mode: \nUnknown",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [
"Weisberger, Edward. Surrealism, Two Private Eyes: The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections. New York, N.Y.: Guggenheim Museum, 1999.
"
],
"date": "By 1999 - 2001",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio",
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"did_you_know": "Dali and other Surrealist artists created images depicting strange juxtapositions that are sometimes referred to as \"dreamscapes.\"",
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"description": "The Dream gives visual form to the strange, often disturbing world of dreams and hallucinations. Ants cluster over the face of the central figure, obscuring the mouth, while the sealed, bulging eyelids suggest the sensory confusion and frustration of a dream. The man at the far left\u2014with a bleeding face and amputated left foot\u2014refers to the classical myth of Oedipus, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. The column that grows from the man\u2019s back and sprouts into a bust of a bearded man refers to the Freudian father, the punishing superego who suppresses the son\u2019s sexual fantasies. In the distance, two men embrace, one holding a golden key or scepter symbolizing access to the unconscious. Behind them, a naked man reaches into a permeable red form, as if trying to enter it.",
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"citation": "Pierre Colle (Firm). Exposition Salvador Dal\u00ed: du 3 au 15 juin 1931. Paris: Pierre Colle, 1931.",
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"citation": "Exposition internationale du surre\u0301alisme, and Andre\u0301 Breton. The International Surrealist Exhibition: Thursday, June 11th to Saturday, July 4th, 1936, New Burlington Galleries. London: International Surrealist Exhibition, English Committee, 1936.",
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"citation": "Pauwels, Louis. Salvador Dal\u00ed Exposition, Knokke Le Zoute-Albert Plage, Casino Communal, 1 juillet-10 septembre 1956. Bruxelles: \u00c9ditions de la Connaissance, 1956.",
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"citation": "Der surrealismus 1922-1942. Mu\u0308nchen: Ausstellunseitung Hans der Kunst, 1972.",
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"citation": "Martin-Me\u0301ry, Gilberte. Bosch, Goya, et le fantastique; catalogue. Bordeaux, 20 mai-31 juillet, 1957. [Bordeaux]: [Imprimeries Delmas], 1957.
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"citation": "Sylvain Bellenger, email to William Robinson, April 13, 2001, in CMA curatorial file.",
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"citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 59' Mentioned: p. 58-59, 118",
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"citation": "\"A Selection of Museum Acquisitions.\" Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors (December 2001): 56.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 56",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cMajor Salvador Dali Painting Acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art,\u201d April 20, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4385"
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"citation": "\"Major Acquisition.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 41, no. 6 (Summer 2001): 2.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 2",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2001-06/page/n1/mode/2up?"
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"citation": "Spies, Werner. La re\u0301volution surre\u0301aliste: exposition pre\u0301sente\u0301e au Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1, 6 mars-24 juin 2002. Paris, France: Centre Pompidou, 2002.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 205",
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"citation": "Spies, Werner. Die surrealistische Revolution. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2002.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 209",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Spies, Werner. Der Surrealismus: Kanon einer Bewegung. Ko\u0308ln, Germany: DuMont, 2003.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 119",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Ades, Dawn. Dali\u0301: The Centenary Retrospective. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2004.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 152-153",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Major Acquisitions 2000-2005.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 45, no. 6 (July/August 2005): 6-17.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 13-14",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-06/page/14/mode/2up"
},
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"citation": "Robinson, William H., Jordi Falga\u0300s, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi\u0301, Miro\u0301, Dali\u0301. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2006.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 352",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Kolberg, Gerhard. Salvador Dali\u0301: la Gare de Perpignan ; Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier ; [Museum Ludwig, Ko\u0308ln, 18. Ma\u0308rz bis 25. Juni 2006]. Ostfildern. Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p, 53, fig. 58",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: p. 314-315",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Grenier, Catherine, and David Radzinowicz. Salvador Dali\u0301: The Making of an Artist. Paris: Flammarion, 2012.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 113",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 300",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "\u201cA Walking Tour: The entire new museum wing by wing, with curators calling out a few favorite works in the collection.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 54, no. 1 (January/February 2014): 8-33.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 21",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2014-01"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 23",
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"citation": "Bergez, Daniel, and Kate Deimling. Painting the Dream: From the Biblical Dream to Surrealism. New York; London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2018.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 234, no. 177",
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"citation": "Poullain, Christine, Dir. Le re\u0302ve. Paris: R\u00e9union des mus\u00e9es nationaux-Grand Palais, 2016.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 21, fig. 3",
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"citation": "Rogla\u0301n, Mark A. Spanish Art in America. Madrid, Spain : Ediciones El Viso 2016.",
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"citation": "Bergez, Daniel. Peindre le re\u0302ve: des re\u0302ves bibliques au surre\u0301alisme.
Paris : Citadelles & Mazenod, 2017.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 233; reproduced p. 234.",
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"citation": "Descharnes, Robert, and Gilles Ne\u0301ret. Salvador Dali: The Paintings 1904-1989. Ko\u0308ln: Taschen, 2019.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 165, no. 361",
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"citation": "Dialer, Corinne. Oneirische Oszillation: Zum Neuzeitlichen Bildthema des Ku\u0308nstlertraums. Hildesheim: Olms; [Mu\u0308nchen]: UB, Universita\u0308tsbibliothek Ludwig-Maximilians-Universita\u0308t Mu\u0308nchen, 2022.",
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"citation": "Breton, Andre\u0301, and Centre Georges Pompidou. Surrealism. Edited by Didier Ottinger and Marie Sarre\u0301. [England]: ACC Art Books, 2024.",
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"citation": "Affron, Matthew. Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Art Museum, 2025.",
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