Sheila Legge
United Kingdom Artist- Performance Art, Surrealist
One of the few women of Surrealism, Sheila Legge.
In 1936, Salvador DalÍ collaborated with fellow surrealist Sheila Legge to stage a surrealist happening in Trafalgar Square. Legge appeared as The Phantom of Sex Appeal dressed in a long white satin dress, her face completely obscured by paper roses and ladybirds. Photographs of this event showing pigeons perching on the Phantom’s arms have become an iconic surrealist image.
Following Legge’s appearance as the Surrealist Phantom in Trafalgar Square, she wandered the exhibition, carrying a pork chop in one hand, and an artificial leg in the other, but the pork chop had to be abandoned on account of the heat.
More Information
- Wikipedia
- Blog on Artist
- An Explosion of Geraniums – podcast
- Reframing Surrealism – Aesthetica magazine
- Sheila Legge (Armenian site)
- The Phantom of Surrealism– book
- I have Done My Best for You – Story (I have not located a link to the actual story yet)