John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
Reno, Nevada
The Lilley Museum of Art is located on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.
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- Salvador Dali
- Raphaelesque Head Exploding, 1951
- Lithograph
- 17 x 22.25 in
- Inv: 2014.1.629
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Title: Raphaelesque Head Exploding
Artist: Salvador Dali
Date: 1951
Medium: Color Lithograph; ink on paper
Credit Line: Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
Item description: Raphael Madonna head with Pantheon-like building. Surreal appropriation of Raphael's Madonna head, Greco-Roman architectural dome with oculus as the skull, ripples of organic lines emulating from the left of the composition.
- Collections: Prints
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