The Mae West Lips Sofa (1937) is a surrealist sofa by Salvador Dalí. The wood-and-satin sofa was shaped after the lips of actress Mae West, whom Dalí apparently found fascinating. It measures 86.5 x 183 x 81.5 cm.
Edward James, a rich British patron of the Surrealists in the 1930s, commissioned this piece from Dali.
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“I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage—but not so amusing as Broadway.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)
“No longer could I doubt him true
All other men may use deceit;
He always said my eyes were blue,
And often swore my lips were sweet.”
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