AGIP - Reportages photographiques

Salvador Dali and a mannequin by André Masson, original photograph taken at the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1938, contemporary silver halide print
AGIP - Reportages photographiques 17 January 1938, 17.8 x 13 cm, one photograph
Original photograph, contemporary silver halide print, taken at the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1938. “AGIP - Reportages photographiques” “AGIP - Photographic Reports” stamp on the verso.
In the image, Salvador Dali is playing with André Masson's mannequin, with a hairstyle like a bird cage. This mannequin called @Le bâillon vert à bouche de pensée#, was exhibited next to that of Marcel Duchamp.
Stencilled inset glued on the back of the picture: "Le vernissage de l'exposition des "surréalistes" a lieu ce soir, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Les artistes présentent des mannequins qu'ils ont habillés à leur idée. L'imagination et la fantaisie semblent chez eux bien plus développées que l'art de la mode ; aussi voici comment l'un d'eux conçoit le chapeau d'une élégante. Photo AGIP 17 janvier 1938.” “The private viewing of the exhibition of the “surrealists” takes place tonight, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The artists present the mannequins that they have dressed as they see fit. Imagination and fantasy seems to be better developed in them than the art of fashion; also, this is how one of them perceives the hat of someone elegant. Photo AGIP 17 January 1938.”
The photographic agency the Rue des Archives, owner of AGIP agency collection, has not taken any other prints of this photograph.

Original photograph taken at the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1938, contemporary silver halide printOriginal photograph, contemporary silver halide print, taken at the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1938. “AGIP – Reportages photographiques” “AGIP – Photographic Reports” stamp on the verso.
The image depicts a mannequin dressed by the artist Wolfgang Paalen, presented in the “surrealist street” of the exhibition, amongst the 15 other “being-objects” decorated by Marcel Duchamp, Seligmann, Max Ernst, Joan Miró,
Augustín Espinoza, Sonia Mossé, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Maurice Henry, Man Ray, Oscar Domínguez, Léo Malet and Marcel Jean.
Stencilled inset glued on the back of the picture: “The private viewing of the exhibition of the “surrealists” takes place tonight, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The artists present the mannequins that they have dressed as they see fit. The art of fashion, for them, does not seem as well developed as the imagination and fantasy; this is how a surrealist conceives someone elegant: a hat comprising a veil with a bat on top; a dress made of gathered mushrooms. Photo AGIP 17 January 1938.”
Some small water stains, not touching the recto, on the verso of the picture.
The photographic agency the Rue des Archives, owner of AGIP agency collection, has not taken any other prints of this photograph.