Cat. no. P 409
The fossil automobile of Cape Creus
Description
- Date:
- 1936
- Technique:
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions:
- 31 x 37 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right: Gala Salvador Dali 1936
- Location:
- Nahmad collection, Switzerland
Provenance
- Edward James
- Auctioned at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 30th, 1981
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, February 7th, 2012
Exhibitions
- 1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, 01/06/1936 - 31/07/1936, cat. no. 4
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, addendum p. 4
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 47
- 1971, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dali Art-in-Jewels Exhibition & Paintings, 08/06/1971 - 10/07/1971, cat. no. 4
- 1972, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, July - September 1972, cat. no. 6
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 133
- 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 198
- 2013, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Dalí. Todas las sugestiones poéticas y todas las posibilidades plásticas, 27/04/2013 - 02/09/2013, p. 198
Bibliography
- Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 68
- Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 47
- Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 116
- Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1972, p. 10
- Salvador Dalí : a guide to his works in public museums, The Dali Museum, Cleveland [Ohio], 1973, p. [83]
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 104
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 302
- Twenty-eight works from the Edward James collection, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1981, p. 44
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 173
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 251
- Garaje : imágenes del automóvil en la pintura española del siglo XX, Fundación Eduardo Barreiros, [Madrid], 2000, p. 46
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 184
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 184
- Dalí un artista un genio, Skira, Milano, 2012, p. 65
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 198
- Begoña Souviron López, Dalí en el contexto cultural centroeuropeo : literatura e iconografia, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, 2014, p. 53 (detail)
- Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, p. 144
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