Description

Date:

c. 1933

Technique:

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions:

24.2 x 19.2 cm

Signature:

Unsigned and undated

Location:

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Provenance

1. Valentine Dudensing, Paris
2. Henry P. McIlhenny, Philadelphia
3. Robert M. Light in partnership with Artemis, London
4. Purchased by the National Gallery of Canada through Eugene V. Thaw, New York, 1975

Exhibitions

1. 1933, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Salvador Dalí, 21/11/1933 - 08/12/1933, cat. no. 9
2. 1933, Paris, Pierre Colle, Exposition Salvador Dali, 19/06/1933 - 29/06/1933, cat. no. 5
3. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 15
4. 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. 15
5. 1962, San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, 15/06/1962 - 31/07/1962, cat. no. 11
6. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 47
7. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 27
8. 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14/05/1980 - 29/06/1980, cat. no. 87
9. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 93
10. 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 23
11. 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21/10/1998 - 31/01/1999, cat. no. 22
12. 2000, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's optical illusions, 21/01/2000 - 26/03/2000, cat. no. 11
13. 2002, París, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 06/03/2002 - 24/06/2002, no reference
14. 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 05/02/2004 - 23/05/2004, cat. no. 71
15. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 120
16. 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 01/06/2007 - 09/09/2007, il. 132
17. 2018, Dallas, Meadows Museum, SMU, Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936, 09/09/2018 - 09/12/2018, cat. no. 9

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55. La Révolution surréaliste, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2002, p. 210
56. Juan Antonio Ramírez, Dalí: lo crudo y lo podrido, A. Machado Libros, Madrid, 2002, p. 56
57. Surrealismus 1914 - 1944 : Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hatje Cantz, Düsseldorf, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002, p. 214
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78. Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 21 (indirect image)
79. Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, p. 7 (detail), p. 117

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