La Chambre des Muses

a visual archive of artworks that inspire the silhouettes, textures, colors, and strange femininity of dollskin surreal.

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson | Prayer, 1847

Irish Lace | 1850

James Van Der Zee| photograph from Harlem Book of the Dead, published 1978

Daria Tessler | Iceblink Luck, 2019

Hans Bellmer | La Poupée [The Doll], or La Bouche [The Mouth], 1936

Toshiko Okanoue: reality condensed in a dream

Toshiko Okanoue: reality condensed in a dream

Bryn Arbucklo | Pedestrian Deposit, 2006

Dada – Puppen | Hannah Höch, 1919,

Louis Wain | Comfort, 1918

Leonard Lee Rue III | White-tailed fawn jumping over a fence, 1962

Hirai Terushichi 平井 輝七 | Fantasies of the Moon 月の夢想, 1938

Kati Horna | Oda a la necrofilia, 1962

Stefan Lorant | Our Lily, 1937

Nasser Ovissi | Untitled, 1963

Raquin | Ariclone, 2018

Jaroslava Pesicova | 13/60, 1980

Colin Elgie | 1982

Léonor Fini | Illustration from Histoire d’O, 1963

Béla Kondor | Dream at the piano, 1972

Norman Alfred Lindsay | The Unicorn, 1943

Gustave Moreau | The Apparition, 1943

Olivier Ledroit | Wika, 2021 (

Václav Zykmund | Lot 38 and 184

Belkis Ayón | Sin Título (Sikán con Chivo), 1993

Interior of St. Joseph’s Chapel, Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset, England | Early 19th century albumen print by Francis Frith

Katherine Cameron | Flowers of Dawn, 1917

Frank Gargani | Unknown

From Frederick Thomas Elworthy's Collection | The Evil Eye: Amulets, 1895

Thea | Il Giogo (1919)

CATS GALORE Vintage cat postcard

Stills from Spellbound, 1945, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, set design by Salvador Dalí.

Agnus Dei | The Sacrificial Lamb, 1670

Roman Cieslewicz | The Village Madwoman, 1962

Kati Horna | Mujer Con Máscara, 1961

Salvador Dali | The Great Masturbator, 1929

Dora Maar | Untitled (Shell hand), 1934

Colin Middleton | The Conspirators, 1942

Yves Tanguy | Indefinite Divisibility, 1942

Joan Miro | Personnage, oiseau, étoiles, 1942

Man Ray | Sade, Pas Terminé, 1933

Claude Cahun | I am in training, don't kiss me, 1927

Salvador Dalí | Illumined Pleasures, 1929

René Magritte | Les Amants, 1928

Méret Oppenheim | Object, Paris-1936

Joan Miro | The Tilled Field, 1923

Hans Bellmer | Plate from La Poupée, 1936

Joan Miro | Carnival Of Harlequin, 1925