"Geodesical" portrait of Gala

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007 Photo © Yokohama Museum of Art

Cat. no. P 438

"Geodesical" portrait of Gala

Description

Date:
1936
Technique:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
21.8 x 27.3 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower left: Gala Salvador Dali 1936
Location:
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (Japan)

Provenance

  1. Edward James, London
  2. Private Collection, Spain
  3. Private Collection, Switzerland
  4. Art Placement International, USA
  5. Asahi Corporation, Japan

Exhibitions

  1. 1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, 01/06/1936 - 31/07/1936, cat. no. 10
  2. 1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, 10/12/1936 - 09/01/1937, cat. no. 18
  3. 1937, Paris, Renou & Colle, Dali, 06/07/1937 - 30/07/1937, no reference
  4. 1941, Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Salvador Dalí, 10/09/1941 - 05/10/1941, cat. no. 19 ?
  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. 32a
  6. 1943, New York, Galleries of M. Knoedler, Dalí, 14/04/1943 - 05/05/1943, cat. no. 6b
  7. 1987, Kobe, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Homage to Catalonia - Barcelona art city, 11/04/1987 - 17/05/1987, cat. no. 122
  8. 1991, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Dalí exhibition, 10/10/1991 - 17/11/1991, cat. no. 48
  9. 1999, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Dali exhibition 1999, 12/06/1999 - 20/08/1999, cat. no. 32
  10. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 154

Bibliography

  1. Souvenir - Catalogue, Julien Levy Gallery, [New York], [1936/37], n. p.
  2. [Geodesical Portrait of Gala (il.)], Sketch, 01/07/1936, s. l., n. p.
  3. "Dali, Waster of a Great Painting Talent?", The Art Digest, 01/01/1937, New York, n. p.
  4. A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 44
  5. Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 86-87 (detail)
  6. Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 140
  7. Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 140
  8. Homage to Catalonia - Barcelona art city, Commitee of exhibition (Homage to Catalonia-Barcelona art city), [S.l.], 1987, p. 191
  9. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 11 (supplement), p. 218
  10. Dalí exhibition, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1991, p. 99
  11. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 271
  12. New history of world art, Shogakukan, [S.l.], 1996, il. 32
  13. Dali exhibition 1999, NTV Europe B.V., [S.l.], 1999, p. 104 (2 details), p. 105, p. 106 (detail)
  14. Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 51
  15. Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 255
  16. Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 116
  17. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Estrella de Diego, Gala. Àlbum, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2007, il. 8
  18. Salvador Dalí à la croisée des savoirs, Desjonquères, Paris, 2007, p. 67
  19. Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, London, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2007, p. 117
  20. Astrid Ruffa, Dalí et le dynamisme des formes : l'élaboration de l'activité "paranoïaque-critique" dans le contexte socioculturel des années 1920-1930, Les presses du réel, France, 2009, p. 442
  21. Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, p. 124 (detail), p. 127

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