Dali à six ans soulevant avec précaution la peau de l'eau pour observer un chien dormir à l'ombre de la mer (Dalí at the Age of Six, When He Thought He Was a Girl, Lifting the Skin of the Water to See a Dog Sleeping in the Shade of the Sea)
Cat. no. P 653
Dali à six ans soulevant avec précaution la peau de l'eau pour observer un chien dormir à l'ombre de la mer (Dalí at the Age of Six, When He Thought He Was a Girl, Lifting the Skin of the Water to See a Dog Sleeping in the Shade of the Sea)
Description
- Date:
- c. 1950
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 27 x 34 cm
- Signature:
- Signed lower right: Dalí
- Location:
- Private collection, Paris
Provenance
- Count François de Vallombreuse, Paris
- Private collection, Pound Ridge, N. Y.
Observations
*The “I Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte” (1st Biennial of Latin American Art) was held in Madrid and Barcelona. In Madrid from 12th October 1951 to 28th February 1952, although we know that Dalí’s works were exhibited only during the shorter period of time we have indicated in the Exhibitions section. In Barcelona, during March 1952, although we know that Dalí’s works were exhibited for the longer period of time we have indicated in the Exhibitions section.
Exhibitions
- 1951, London, The Lefevre Gallery, Dalí, December 1951, cat. no. 10
- 1952, Madrid, Salas de la Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte, 1º Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte *, 22/01/1952 - 24/02/1952, no reference
- 1952, Barcelona, Museo de Arte Moderno, I Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte *, March 1952, cat. no. 6
- 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 43
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 125
- 1999, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, 04/06/1999 - 12/09/1999, cat. no. 59
Bibliography
- Dalí, The Lefevre Gallery, London, 1951, n. p.
- "Con halago y con rigor", Índice de Artes y Letras. Suplemento, 15/02/1952, Madrid, n. p. (detail)
- Juan Cortés, "La antología de la Bienal", Destino, 15/03/1952, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
- Manuel Lavedan, "Tres coincidencias dalinianas", Abc, 16/04/1952, Madrid, p. 9 (detail)
- Mario Alves, "Salvador Dali mestre ou plagiador?", Flama, 14/11/1952, Lisboa, n. p. (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1964, p. 84
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 105
- César Gonzalez Ruano, "Dos perros", Abc, 21/04/1965, Madrid, p. 39
- Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 73
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 19 (detail)
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 180-181
- Toni Bernard, "Los Dalis de Dali [Coberta]", Centro moda, Primavera 1975, Barcelona, p. 4 (detail)
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Dalí, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1977, p. 90-91 (detail)
- "Le grand Dali et la petite folle [Coberta]", Dialogues Homophiles, 31/10/1977, Paris, p. 6-7 (detail)
- Antonio Fernández Molina, Dalí, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Servicio de Publicaciones, [Pamplona], 1978, p. 71 (detail)
- José Pierre, Le Surréalisme, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1978, n. p.
- Robert Descharnes, S. Terayama, Dalí: the book of great masters, Zauho, Tokyo, 1978, p. 30 (detail)
- Homage to Dalí, Chartwell Books, Secaucus, New Jersey, [1980], p. 122
- Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surrealisme, Filipacchi, Paris, 1980, p. 84
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 100
- Salvador Jimenez, "El artista adolescente", Abc, 15/04/1983, Madrid, p. 99
- Antonio D. Olano, Nacimiento, vida, pasión, muerte, resurrección y gloria de Salvador, Domingo, Felipe, Jacinto Dalí Doménech, Cusí y Farrés, Marqués de Dalí y Púbol, Dyrsa, Madrid, 1985, p. 292 (detail)
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Buñuel, Lorca y Dalí: el enigma sin fin, Planeta, Barcelona, 1988, p. 281 (detail)
- Ecrire sur soi en Espagne: models et ecarts, Publications Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 1988, p. 328 (detail)
- "Demart, S.A., D alí y la explotación de sus derechos de autor", ABC, 19/05/1988, Madrid, p. 23
- René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 86-87
- Marta Macías, La Piel del mar y otros poemas, El Editor Interamericano, La Plata - Buenos Aires - Argentina, 1992, cover, p. 10 (detail)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 68
- Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 49
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 234
- Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 49
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 433
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Fèlix Fanés, Salvador Dalí. Álbum de familia, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació "La Caixa", [Figueres], [Barcelona], 1998, p. 33 (indirect image)
- Grace Megwinoff Andréu, Dalí: Salvador de la pintura, Grace Megwinoff Andréu, San Juan (Puerto Rico), 1998, p. 71 (detail)
- Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 115
- Warum tut das Loch in meiner Hand nicht weh?, Tympano, München, 2000, p. 61
- Lluís Llongueras, Todo Dalí : vida y obra del personaje más genial y espectacular del siglo XX, Generalitat de Catalunya, [Barcelona], 2003, p. LXXVI
- Javier Pérez Andújar, Salvador Dalí : a la conquista de lo irracional, Algaba, Madrid, 2003, n. p. (detail)
- Dalí : afinitats electives, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura, Barcelona, 2004, p. 159 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí: l'album, Draeger, [París], 2005, p. 143 (indirect image), p. 147
- Catherine Millet, Dalí et moi, Gallimard, [París], 2005, p. 139
- Ricard Mas, Dalí i Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2017, p. 77 (detail)
- Estrella de Diego, Gala Salvador Dalí : una habitació pròpia a Púbol, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2018, p. 174
- Dalí atómico, Fundación Bancaria "la Caixa", [Barcelona], 2018, p. 139
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