Dues figures en una platja (Two Figures on a Beach)
Unsatisfied Desires
Cat. no. P 204
Dues figures en una platja (Two Figures on a Beach)
Unsatisfied Desires
Description
- Date:
- 1928
- Technique:
- Oil, shells and sand on cardboard
- Dimensions:
- 76.2 x 62.23 cm
- Signature:
- Signed lower left: Salvador Dalí
- Location:
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (California). Fractional gift of Jan and Mitsuko Shrem, Clos Pegase Winery Collection
Provenance
- Tristan Tzara, Paris
- F. Graindorge collection, Liège
- Galerie Krugier et Cie, Geneva
- Jan and Mitsuko Shrem, Clos Pegase Winery Collection, Calistoga (California)
Observations
*Rejected by the "Saló de Tardor" organized by the Parés Gallery in 1928, this work was exhibited with a cork added by the art dealer Dalmau at the "Exposició inaugural (conjunt)" from 22nd October to 6th November, 1928.
Exhibitions
- 1928, Barcelona, Galeries Dalmau, Exposició inaugural (conjunt), 22/10/1928 - 06/11/1928, cat. no. 21*
- 1963, Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Art contemporain, 1963, no reference
- 1964, Milano, Centro d'Arte Annunciata, 8 Pittori Surrealisti, 11/11/1964 - 01/12/1964, no reference
- 1967, Humlebaek (Dinamarca), Musée Louisiana, Six peintres surréalistes = Zes surrealistische schilders, March - April 1967, cat. no. 2
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 8
- 1971, Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, 29/01/1971 - 28/03/1971, cat. no. 4
- 1972, Munich, Haus der Kunst, Der Surrealismus, 1922-1942, 11/03/1972 - 07/05/1972, cat. no. 81
- 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 48
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 57
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 01/06/2007 - 09/09/2007, il. 6
Bibliography
- Art contemporain, Foire de Paris, Paris, 1963, p. 10
- 8 Pittori Surrealisti, Centro d'Arte Annunciata, Milano, (1964), n. p.
- Six peintres surréalistes = Zes surrealistische schilders, Acord Culturel Belgo-Danois, [Bruxelles], 1967, n. p.
- Surrealismo, el ojo soluble, Litoral, Málaga, 1968, p. 61
- Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 8
- Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 55
- Tableaux contemporains : collection X ..., Palais Galliéra, Paris, 1972, p. 31
- Patrick Waldberg, Ingrid Krause, Der Surrealismus, 1922-1942, Haus der Kunst, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Munich, Paris, 1972, cat. no. 81
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 145
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 145
- Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, il. 15, p. 101
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 58
- DALI, The Tate Gallery, [London], 1980, il. 6
- Rafael Santos Torroella, La Miel es más dulce que la sangre : las épocas lorquiana y freudiana de Salvador Dalí, Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1984, p. 157
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- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 127
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- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 37
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- Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, il. XII
- Fèlix Fanés, Salvador Dalí, la construcción de la imagen : 1925-1930, Electa, [Madrid], 1999, p. 118
- Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 47
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Salvador Dalí : désirs inassouvis du purisme au surréalisme, 1925-1935, La Passage, Paris-New York, 2002, il. 15
- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 128
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 77
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 77
- Joan M. Minguet i Batllori, Salvador Dalí, cine y surrealismo(s), Parsifal, Barcelona, 2003, p. 63
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 97 (detail)
- Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Salvador Dalí : vida i obra d'un geni, Columna, Barcelona, 2004, n. p.
- Huellas dalinianas, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Madrid, 2004, p. 76 (detail)
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- Companion to Spanish surrealism, Tamesis, Woodbridge, 2004, il. 5
- Rafael Santos Torroella, El Primer Dalí, 1918-1929 : catálogo razonado, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Generalitat Valenciana. Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Esport, Publicaciones, [València], [València], [Madrid], 2005, p. 349
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- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 20
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, París, 2011, p. 69
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- Dawn Ades, Writings on art and anti-art, Ridinghouse, London, 2015, p. 474
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