Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936, Salvador Dalí via Philadelphia Museum of Art website.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced that the Dreamland: Surrealism at 100 exhibition will run from November 8, 2025, through February 16, 2026.
“In his Manifesto of Surrealism of 1924, André Breton celebrated the unbridled imagination as the key to freedom in all aspects of life,” the Philadelphia Museum of Art noted. “Artists responded by inventing a wide variety of new expressive forms designed to stir up the human capacity for wonder and amazement. Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 will feature approximately one hundred and eighty works by more than seventy artists associated with the international Surrealist movement.
“The Philadelphia Museum of Art will be the only U.S. venue for this traveling exhibition, following distinct iterations at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which launched this project to celebrate Surrealism’s centenary, and three other European museums. Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights will include Joan Miró’s Dog Barking at the Moon (1926), Salvador Dalí’s Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936), and Dorothea Tanning’s Birthday (1942).
According to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 exhibition is made possible by the Annenberg Foundation Fund for Major Exhibitions, the Robert Montgomery Scott Endowment for Exhibitions, the Kathleen C. and John J. F. Sherrerd Fund for Exhibitions, the Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky Installation and Exhibition Fund, the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Fund for Exhibitions, The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, Audrey Escoll, Mr. and Mrs. Orlando C. Esposito, James and Susan Pagliaro, Barbara A. Podell and Mark G. Singer, and Andrew S. Teufel.
All exhibitions at the PMA are underwritten by the Annual Exhibition Fund. Generous support is provided by Andrea Baldeck, M.D.; Julia and David Fleischner; Mrs. Henry F. Harris; Robert Hayes; and Mark W. Strong and Dana Strong.
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