A male
chauffeur with a
shark head is in the front seat, and a female passenger sits in the back seat. The female wears an evening dress, her hair is tousled, and
lettuce and
chicory grow around her. Live
snails crawl across her body. The whole thing is watered by rain falling inside the car, generated by an ingenious system of pipes, activated by the public by a €1 coin changer, in the version that exists at the
Dalí Theatre and Museum. The piece was first displayed in 1938 at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris at the
Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, organised by
André Breton and
Paul Éluard. The main hall of the Exposition was designed by
Marcel Duchamp and
Wolfgang Paalen, who was responsible for the supervision of the water installations. A reconstruction of the original installation is installed in the open courtyard of the
Dalí Theatre and Museum, in
Figueres. ==See also==