BLACK DAHLIA SURREAL APPEARANCES
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HOMICIDE PHOTOGRAPHY ![]() The Black Dahlia: Elizabeth Short (1924-1947) ![]() Autopsy by Dr. Frederick Newbarr, Chief Coroner, January 16, 1947 ![]() Autopsy documented sadistic torture, culminating in homicide and subsequent bisection ![]() Victim discovered on Wednesday, January 15, 1947 ![]() Abandoned in empty lot at 39th and Norton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA ![]() |
![]() MAN RAY BLACK DAHLIA SURREAL APPEARANCES ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Legend is an early painting, later repainted in Los Angeles ![]() Los Angeles studio, 1947, with Legend hanging on the wall ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The original Promenade was painted in 1915 Man Ray painted it again during 1945 in Los Angeles ![]() Early art journal The Ridgefield Gazook by Man Ray, 1915 Precursor to future Dada and Surrealist journals Z and Minotaure ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The original Le beau temps was painted in 1939 Man Ray painted it again in his Los Angeles studio during 1945 ![]() Juliet Browner in minotaure repose below Le beau temps Vine Street studio, Los Angeles, 1945 ![]() Watch Man Ray's Film Le Retour A La Raison (The Return To Reason), 1923 |
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![]() OTHER BLACK DAHLIA SURREAL APPEARANCES ![]() Helene Vanel performance at Galerie Beaux-Arts Exhibition, Paris, 1938 ![]() ![]() Man Ray, Dalí and other surrealists participate in the performance ![]() Max Ernst, Anatomy as Bride, 1921 ![]() Max Ernst, Sacred Conversation ![]() Max Ernst, Celebes, 1921 ![]() Max Ernst, One Must Not See Reality As I Am, 1923 ![]() Marcel Duchamp, Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, 1915-23 ![]() René Magritte, The Menaced Assassin, 1927 ![]() René Magritte, La Ruse Symetrique, 1928 ![]() René Magritte, Marshes of Summer, 1939 ![]() René Magritte, Les Idées de l'acrobate, 1928 ![]() Hans Bellmer, Peppermint Tower in Honor of Greedy Little Girls, 1937 ![]() Hans Bellmer, Poupée (Doll) Seven variations from 1934-6 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Georges Hugnet, La silhouette frangée de bleu électrique, 1936 ![]() André Masson Massacres, 1928 Appeared in Minotaure, no. 1, 1933 ![]() André Masson Gradiva, 1939 ![]() Roland Penrose Octavia, 1939 ![]() Victor Brauner Magic Games, 1938 ![]() Victor Brauner Mitsi, 1939 ![]() Raoul Ubac Penthésilée, 1937 ![]() Raoul Ubac Le Combat de Penthésilée II, 1937 ![]() Two covers from the American art journal View (1940 - 1947) The magazine is best known for introducing Surrealism to the American public Above: Cover by Man Ray, June, 1943 Below: Cover by André Masson, October, 1943 ![]() View was banned by the U.S. Postal Service in early 1944 for no given reason, probably a reaction to published nude reproductions by Picasso Man Ray wrote the editor a sympathetic letter while casting sarcastic barbs at postal officials Other readers encouraged the editor to translate articles from the French journal Minotaure, specifically an article regarding the Papin sisters double homicide in 1933 Both content and readerships for View and Minotaure were closely linked ![]() Seven covers from two French Surrealist journals La Révolution surréaliste (1924 - 1929) and Minotaure (1933 - 1939) Minotaure was popular in American avant-garde art circles Minotaure was circulated in America through galleries on both coasts, and its surrealist content was reproached by mainstream periodicals such as Time ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ART IMITATING LIFE POST-BLACK DAHLIA APPEARANCES ![]() To Be- continued unnoticed by Man Ray Catalogue for Cafe Man Ray Exhibit William Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, December, 1948 through January 9, 1949 Less than two years after Black Dahlia murder ![]() Birth of Venus by William Copley, 1953 Six years after Black Dahlia murder ![]() Death of Montalita by Fred Sexton, 1955 Eight years after Black Dahlia murder ![]() It is midnight, Dr. _ by William Copley, 1961 Fourteen years after Black Dahlia murder ![]() Vergine indomata by Man Ray, 1964 Seventeen years after Black Dahlia murder ![]() Natural Painting by Man Ray, 1965 Eighteen years after Black Dahlia murder ![]() Étant donnés (Given: 1 The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas) by Marcel Duchamp, 1946-1966 Exhibited nineteen years after Black Dahlia murder ![]() Étant donnés exhibit structure Rebus by Man Ray, 1972 Twenty-five years after Black Dahlia murder ![]() Rebus II by Man Ray, 1972 Twenty-five years after Black Dahlia murder |
![]() SURREALIST APPEARANCES ![]() Salvador Dalí and Man Ray ![]() William Copley, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp ![]() Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp ![]() Max Ernst, Jacqueline Breton, André Masson, André Breton and Varian Fry, 1941 ![]() André Breton ![]() Max Ernst ![]() Paul Éluard ![]() René Magritte ![]() Raoul Ubac ![]() Hans Bellmer |
![]() PRE-DAHLIA SURREAL LITERARY APPEARANCES
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POST-DAHLIA LITERARY APPEARANCES
Here are excerpts from surrealist literature and biographical sources. All cited literature postdates the Black Dahlia murder. |
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"They [Surrealists] were well placed to carry out a dissection of bourgeois mores, particularly with regards to sexuality."
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