Salvador Dalí In Pictures

Dalí had a model suspended upside-down, dangling from a balcony while pouring 80 kilos of chickpeas that would bounce around her, simulating atomic repulsion.

Salvador Dalí in London with one of his paintings entitled 'The Madonna of Port Lligat', 1951

Salvador Dalí & his wife Gala posing with a taxi cab

Salvador Dalí. Paris 1973

Salvador Dalí. Paris 1973

Salvador Dalí kisses the hand of Raquel Welch, 1965

Dalí by Philippe Halsman, 1943

Dalí by Philippe Halsman

Dalí and Donyale Luna shot by William Claxton, 1966

Dalí and Gala by Werner Bokelberg, 1965

“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.” 

Salvador Dalí 

Adele Jergens

Student Bodies, Playboy, September 1972

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Earl Moran, c.1948

Artists & Their Models

A picture of American pinup artist and illustrator Ed Vebell, at work with Dorothy Partington. 

source grandma-did

'Sur les toits de Paris', Lui Magazine, Octobre 1964

Gabrielle Drake

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John Hovannes working on a sculpture, ca. 1950

source Archives of American Art

Artists And Their Models

Painter Thomas Hart Benton in his classroom-studio at the Kansas City Art Institute, in 1939.
© Alfred Eisenstaedt

Jean Negulesco paints a portrait of a nude model in his Hollywood studio.
© Jerry Cooke

Moses Soyer paints a portrait of a woman in his Greenwich Village studio in 1960.

Artist David Fredenthal sketches a model in 1948.
© Gjon Mili

German surrealist Fabius von Gugel sketches a nude outdoors against a backdrop in Rome.
© Jack Birns

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Artists And Their Models

Students at the University of Iowa, 1961.

© Alfred Eisenstaedt

Artist and model in the American Southwest in 1948.
© Alfred Eisenstaedt

A painter prepares a billboard for the 1958 Ava Gardner film, The Naked Maja.
© Bill Bridges

Sculptor Chaim Gross sketches a nude model in 1942.

© Eliot Elisofon

A nude model poses for artist Fletcher Martin in 1940.

© Peter Stackpole

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Gil Elvgren Model

Bear Facts (A Modest Look; Bearback Rider) 1962

Catwoman

 Bob Kane painting an unnamed model, circa 1940. 

Bob Carlos Clarke