London International Surrealist Exhibition
- London International Surrealist Exhibition
The International Surrealist Exhibition was held from 11 June to 4 July 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries in London, England.
The exhibition was organised by:
* Hugh Sykes Davies
* David Gascoyne
* Humphrey Jennings
* Rupert Lee
* Diana Brinton Lee
* Henry Moore
* Paul Nash
* Roland Penrose
* Herbert Read
* ELT Mesens
The French organising committee were:
* André Breton
* Paul Éluard
* Georges Hugnet
* Man Ray
The exhibition was opened in the presence of about two thousand people by André Breton. The average attendance for the whole of the Exhibition was about a thousand people per day.
During the course of the Exhibition, the following lectures were delivered to large audiences:
* June 16 — André Breton — Limites non Frontières du Surréalisme.
* June 19 — Herbert Read — Art and the Unconscious.
* June 24 — Paul Éluard — La Poésie Surréaliste.
* June 26 — Hugh Sykes Davies — Biology and Surrealism.
* July 1 — Salvador Dalí — Fantomes paranoiaques authentiques.
Dali's lecture was delivered whilst wearing a deep-sea diving suit. Nearly suffocating during the presentation, Dali had to be rescued by the young poet, David Gascoyne, who arrived with a spanner to release him from the diving helmet.
Sources
* "International Surrealist Bulletin", Number 4, September 1936.
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