The Three Sphinxes of Bikini
Cat. no. P 629
The Three Sphinxes of Bikini
Description
- Date:
- 1947
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 40.6 x 51.4 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right: Salvador Dalí 1947
- Location:
- Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima (Japan)
Provenance
- Daniel Sickles, Paris
- Mme. V. Feidt Vilmorin, Neuilly
- Pascal Sernet, Paris
- Private collection, Geneve
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, May 11th, 1993
- Teizo Morohashi
Exhibitions
- 1947, New York, Bignou Gallery, New Paintings by Salvador Dali, 25/11/1947 - 03/01/1948, cat. no. 14
- 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/1956 - 10/09/1956, cat. no. 32
- 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 40
- 1973, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 06/10/1973 - 02/12/1973, cat. no. 29
- 1974, Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, 14/03/1974 - 05/05/1974, cat. no. 15
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 235
Bibliography
- New Paintings by Salvador Dali, Bignou Gallery, New York, 1947 - 1948, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, "Dali goes atomic (il)", Times Tab., 24/11/1947, Chicago, Ill.
- Alonzo Lansford, "New Exhibition Reveals a Modified Dali", The Art Digest, 01/12/1947, New York, p. 13
- Dorothy Adlow, "Recent works on exhibition in New York", Christian Science Monitor, 13/12/1947, Boston, Mass.
- Fernando Sabino, "Conversa com Salvador Dali", 0 Jornal Do Rio de Janeiro, 14/12/1947, Rio de Janeiro
- Fernando Jiménez-placer, "Dali y la mitologia atomica", Semana, 10/02/1948, Madrid
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 40
- José Cubells, "La bomba de hidrogeno", Club Deportivo Ebro, 31/12/1952, s. l.
- Charles Bernard, "L'exposition Dali au Casino du Zoute", La Nation Belge, 04/07/1956, Bruxelles
- Camon, Aznar, José, "El surrealismo alcanza la luna", Abc, 06/10/1959, Madrid, p. 22
- Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1964, p. 83
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 58-59
- Louisiana Revy : Salvador Dalí, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1973, p. 30
- Salvador Dalí, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Stockholm, 1973/1974, p. 21
- "Salvador Dalí", Moderna Museet Stockholm, 26/12/1973, Stockholm, p. 21 (detail)
- Marianna Minola de Gallotti, "Exposición Salvador Dalí en el Museo Louisiana de Humlebaek (dinamarca)", La Vanguardia Española, 21/06/1974, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 199
- "Dalí le pitre ne vaut pas le peintre", Télérama, 09/01/1980, Paris, n. p. (detail)
- Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 80
- Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 138
- Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela, The Tree of knowledge : the biological roots of human understanding, New Science Library, Boston & London, 1987, cover
- "Demart, S.A., D alí y la explotación de sus derechos de autor", ABC, 19/05/1988, Madrid, p. 23
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 307, p. 306 (indirect image)
- René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 81
- Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 70
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 411
- Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 70
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 81
- Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 89
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 506 (indirect image)
- The World of Salvador Dali and the 20 great masters of the 20th century, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2005, p. 52-53
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Estrella de Diego, Gala. Àlbum, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2007, il. 90 (indirect image) (detail)
- The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, p. 55
- Gavin Parkinson, Surrealism, art and modern science : relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology, Yale University, New Haven & London, 2008, p. 207
- The Decadal report of Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2009, p. 7 (indirect image) (detail), p. 10 (indirect image) (detail), p. 21 (indirect image)
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 79
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 22
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : the reality of dreams, Prestel, Munich, London, New York, 2011, p. 81
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 221
- Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, p. 197
- Dalí atómico, Fundación Bancaria "la Caixa", [Barcelona], 2018, p. 30
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