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National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection; 1950, Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / SODRAC (2008)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man"
June 6 – Sept. 7

The National Gallery pays tribute to the revolutionary changes in artistic representations of the human form during the turbulent 1930s. This exhibition explores the link between art and biology at a time when contrasting concepts of the "degenerate" artist and those of "The New Man" were spreading through Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union. It comprises 206 rarely seen works created by some the most celebrated European and North American artists of the 20th century, among them Dalí, Picasso, and Kandinsky.