Exhibit Examines Dalí’s Depiction of Women

The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg is hosting a new exhibit epitomizing Dalí’s representation of the female image in his various creations.

A selection of 70 works from the museum’s permanent collection will be on display through Sept. 21, organized to illustrate Dalí’s depiction of women as it evolved over the course of his artistic career. Subjects include various women as models from his days as a gifted student; the artist’s sister, Ana María, in works such as Girl’s Back, 1926; and Dalí’s wife, Gala, who would eventually became his exclusive model and his muse.

Among the other works featured in this exhibit are The Bather (1928) and Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces (1938). The exhibition is curated by Joan Kropf and Dirk Armstrong.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the Dalí & Beyond Film Series will showcase films by and about women through September. Scheduled for Thursday, June 19, 6 p.m., is 8 femmes, starring some of France’s cinema elite, including Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Virginie Ledoyen, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart, Isabelle Huppert, Ludivine Sagnier, and Firmine Richard. The eight women find themselves snowbound in a house with a dead man in this murder mystery.

The film series lineup also includes:

• Lena Wertmüller’s Swept Away – Thursday, July 3, 6 p.m.
• Sally Potter’s Orlando – Thursday, July 17, 6 p.m.
• Pedro Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Thursday, Aug. 7, 6 p.m.
• Ana Belén’s How to be a Woman and not Die in the Attempt – Thursday, Aug. 21, 6 p.m.
• Carlos Saura’s Carmen – Thursday, Sept. 4, 6 p.m.
• Silvia Munt’s Gala – Thursday, Sept. 18, 6 p.m.