Description

Date:

1929

Technique:

Oil and collage on cardboard

Dimensions:

22.5 x 35 cm

Signature:

Signed and dated lower left: Salvador Dalí 29

Location:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Jacques and Nastasha Gelman Collection,

Provenance

1. André Breton, Paris
2. Julien Levy Gallery, New York
3. Wright Ludington, Santa Barbara, California
4. Julien Levy, Bridgewater (Connecticut)
5. Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, November 4th 1981
6. Jacques and Nastasha Gelman, Mexico

Exhibitions

1. 1929, París, Galerie Goemans, Dalí, 20/11/1929 - 05/12/1929, cat. no. 2
2. 1931, Paris, Pierre Colle, Exposition Salvador Dalí, 03/06/1931 - 15/06/1931, cat. no. 5
3. 1938, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, The Painters of Still Life, 25/01/1938 - 15/02/1938, cat. no. 35
4. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 5
5. 1942, Indianapolis, The John Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis Museum of Art), [Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali], 05/04/1942 - 04/05/1942, cat. no. 5
6. 1953, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Fiesta Exhibition Picasso, Gris, Miro, Dali, 14/08/1953 - 30/08/1953, cat. no. 55
7. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 245
8. 1967, New York, Knoedler Gallery, Space and dream, 05/12/1967 - 29/12/1967, no reference
9. 1968, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dada, surrealism, and their heritage, 27/03/1968 - 09/06/1968, cat. no. 58
10. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 11
11. 1991, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 25/04/1991 - 26/08/1991, no reference
12. 1994, London, Hayward Gallery, Salvador Dalí: the early years, 03/03/1994 - 30/05/1994, cat. no. 116
13. 2001, London, Tate Modern, Surrealism desire unbound, 20/09/2001 - 01/01/2002, il. 2
14. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 69
15. 2006, Cleveland, Ohio. USA, Cleveland Museum of Art, Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí, 15/10/2006 - 07/01/2007, cat. no. 7:33
16. 2007, Nueva York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí, 07/03/2007 - 03/06/2007, cat. no. 7:33
17. 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 01/06/2007 - 09/09/2007, il. 35
18. 2018, Dallas, Meadows Museum, SMU, Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936, 09/09/2018 - 09/12/2018, cat. no. 1

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2. Julien Levy, Surrealism, The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936, p. 169
3. James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 35
4. Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, p. V (detail)
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7. "San Francisco sees the Ludington collection", Art News, 30/06/1948, New York, n. p. (detail)
8. Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 9
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82. Un perro andaluz 80 años después, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, La Fábrica, Madrid, 2009, p. 138
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84. Dalí, Lorca y la Residencia de Estudiantes, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], 2010, p. 284 (detail)
85. Culture Chanel, Museum of Contemporary Art [MoCA], Shanghai, 2011, p. 260-261
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89. Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 3 (indirect image)
90. Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, p. 92 (detail), p. 93, p. 94 (detail)

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