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Cash Box
April 14, 1973

Dali Exhibits Cooper Portrait

NEW YORK — Salvador Dali recently presented his latest work, a three-dimensional portrait of rock star Alice Cooper, to a small coterie of friends, patrons and reporters at the Kneodler Gallery here. The por­trait is the first work executed by the artist in over a year.

Dali's portrait of Alice Cooper was begun on February 26 as Cooper, wearing over a million dollars worth of jewels loaned by Harry Winston, posed for the artist with an anatomical brain designed by Dali (including Daliesque symbols of a coffee eclair indicating Alice's accessibility to his public), Dali ants and a soft watch. Cooper also held a microphone designed by the artist of a sectioned Venus de Milo representing "the shattering of antiquity by this rock star's voice." The sitting was filmed through a special holograph process involving a laser beam and refracted light.

Dali's portrait of Alice Cooper will be on exhibition at the gallery in a specially designed room and will be available for viewing by the public on a limited basis. Alice Cooper, meanwhile, continues his fifty-six city American tour, the most extensive in the history of rock music, in conjunction with the release of his latest album "Billion Dollar Babies" which has just been certified for an RIAA gold record award.