"The work, Necrophiliac Spring (1936) was owned by Schiaparelli and inspired one of her most famous creations, the Tears Dress (1938), which is adorned with trompe l'oeil rips and gashes. The exhibition curators also uncovered important research linked to the Dalí painting-a photograph by Mark Shaw published in Life magazine in November 1953, which shows the work on display in Schiaparelli's home in Paris."
"Necrophiliac Spring shows a flower-headed figure and a fisherman on a beach thought to be at Rosas near Dalí's home village in Port Lligat on Spain's Costa Brava. The absurdist painting was first shown in 1936 at an exhibition in New York and was last shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel in the 2011 exhibition Surrealism in Paris."
"The dress is printed, and the rips in the veil have been carefully cut out and lined in pink and magenta. The trompe l'oeil tears print was specially designed by Schiaparelli's friend, Dalí. Dalí's flowery head resonated with Schiaparelli who, according to her memoir, planted seeds in her nose and mouth as a child so as to beautify herself."
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London will present a major exhibition on Italian couturière Elsa Schiaparelli from March 28 to November 1, featuring Salvador Dalí's Necrophiliac Spring (1936), a Surrealist painting never before displayed in the UK. The work, owned by Schiaparelli, directly inspired her famous Tears Dress (1938), which features trompe l'oeil rips and gashes. Curators discovered a 1953 Life magazine photograph by Mark Shaw documenting the Dalí painting displayed in Schiaparelli's Paris home. The absurdist painting depicts a flower-headed figure and fisherman on a Spanish beach and was last exhibited in 2011 at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. The work, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2012 for $16.3 million, is on loan from a private collection. The exhibition explores Schiaparelli's collaborative relationships with artists including Dalí, Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, and Leonor Fini.
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