Cat. no. P 500
Dancer - Skull
Description
- Date:
- c. 1939
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 24.5 x 19.5 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated upper center: Dalí / 1932 ?
- Location:
- Private collection
Provenance
- Georges Hugnet, Paris
- Kunsthandel Den Tijd (Leo Dohmen), Antwerp
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, June 30th, 1987
- Private collection (Merz collection)
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, February 20th, 2020
Observations
Despite being dated "1932?", technical and stylistic study of the work leads us to believe that it was painted in or around 1939.
Exhibitions
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 216
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 21
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 19
- 1994, Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ¿Buñuel!, Auge des jahrhunderts, 04/02/1994 - 24/04/1994, p. 217
- 1996, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ¿Buñuel!, la mirada del siglo, 16/07/1996 - 14/10/1996, no reference
- 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 05/02/2004 - 23/05/2004, cat. no. 323
- 2009, Stuttgart, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum und Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Gegen Jede Vernunft. Surrealismus Paris - Prag, 14/11/2009 - 14/02/2010, núm. cat 157
- 2009, Paris, Galeries Nationales. Grand Palais, Une image peut en cacher une autre: Arcimboldo, Dali, Raetz, 08/04/2009 - 06/07/2009, cat. no. 258
Bibliography
- Louisiana revy, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 45
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 279
- Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 55
- ¿Buñuel!, Auge des Jahrhunderts, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1994, p. 217
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 337
- The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, p. 247
- Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona, Figueres, 2004, p. 186
- It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, p. 301
- Georges Beauté, Little Dalí a l'escola, Philippe Delécusse, Escaldes-Engordany (Principat d'Andorra), 2005, p. 53
- Ola Pepín! Dalí, Lorca y Buñuel en la Residencia de Estudiantes, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, Publicaciones de la Residencia de Estudiantes, Barcelona, Madrid, 2007, p. 159
- Une image peut en cacher une autre : Arcimboldo, Dali, Raetz, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2009, n. p., p. 307
- Gegen Jede Vernunft. Surrealismus Paris - Prag, Belser, Stuttgart, 2009, p. 210
- Culture Chanel, Museum of Contemporary Art [MoCA], Shanghai, 2011, p. 256 (indirect image) (detail)
- Idoia Murga Castro, Pintura en danza. Los artistas españoles y el ballet : 1916-1962, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 2012, p. 357
- -, -, -, Marc Aufraise, Marc Aufraise, Caroline Barbier de reulle, Marijke Peyser-Verhaar, Astrid Ruffa, Ha, Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne [Coberta] | [Sumari] | Éditorial | Les prémices du théâtre photographique de Salvador Dalí (1932-1933) | Portraits de fantasmes | Salvador Dalí et la musiqu, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 99
- "LOS BALLETS DALINIANOS de Bacanal a Sacrificio", ARTE Y PARTE, 01/04/2013, s. l., [p. 24]
- Natalia Malinóvskaya, [Temes amb variacions], Tsentr knigi Rudomino, Moscou, 2014, p. 485
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