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The 'International Surrealist Exhibition' was held from 11 June to 4 July 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries in London, England.
The exhibition was organised by:

★ Hugh Sykes Davies

★ David Gascoyne

★ Humphrey Jennings

★ Rupert Lee

★ Diana Brinton Lee

★ Henry Moore

★ Paul Nash

★ Roland Penrose

★ Herbert Read

★ ELT Mesens
The French organising committee were:

★ André Breton

★ Paul Éluard

★ Georges Hugnet

★ Man Ray
The exhibition was opened in the presence of about two thousand people by André Breton. The average attendance for the whole of the Exhibition was about a thousand people per day.
During the course of the Exhibition, the following lectures were delivered to large audiences:

★ June 16 — André Breton — Limites non Frontières du Surréalisme.

★ June 19 — Herbert Read — Art and the Unconscious.

★ June 24 — Paul Éluard — La Poésie Surréaliste.

★ June 26 — Hugh Sykes Davies — Biology and Surrealism.

★ July 1 — Salvador Dalí — Fantomes paranoiaques authentiques.
Dali's lecture was delivered whilst wearing a deep-sea diving suit. Nearly suffocating during the presentation, Dali had to be rescued by the young poet, David Gascoyne, who arrived with a spanner to release him from the diving helmet.

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★ ''International Surrealist Bulletin'', Number 4, September 1936.