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Fall 1937

Woman's Evening Coat

The embroidery design illustrates Dalí's paranoiac-critical method, in which more than one possible meaning can be attached to the same image. Here, two faces in profile can also be viewed as a rose-filled urn set atop a fluted column.

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Woman's Evening Coat, Fall 1937 | Philadelphia Museum of Art