Cat. no. P 713
Crâne de Zurbaran (Skull of Zurbarán)
Description
- Date:
- 1956
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 100.3 x 100.3 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated bottom center: Salvador Dali / 1956
- Location:
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D. C. Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Provenance
- Carstairs Gallery, New York
- Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York
Exhibitions
- 1956, New York, Carstairs Gallery, Salvador Dali, 04/12/1956 - 05/01/1957, cat. no. 2
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 146
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 260
- 2000, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's optical illusions, 21/01/2000 - 26/03/2000, cat. no. 54
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 231
- 2009, [Tòquio], The Chunichi Shimbun, Nagoya City Art Museu, Visual deception, 11/04/2009 - 07/06/2009, cat. no. 108
- 2010, Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí: The late work, 07/07/2010 - 09/02/2011, cat. no. 23
Bibliography
- Howard Devree, [Paintings by Laurencin in Retrospect - Selectes Sculpture - Dalí Again], New York Times, 09/12/1956, New York, p. 162
- A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 73
- Rafael Santos Torroella, "La otra verdad de Salvador Dalí", Revista de Gerona, 30/04/1963, Girona, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- Joe Broady, "Top Art Show of Year to Open", Oklahoman, 08/03/1964, Oklahoma City, Okla., p. 1
- James W. Henderson, "These Were Saginaw Viewers' Favorites", News, 23/08/1964, Saginaw, Mich., n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 127
- Ronald G. Carraher, Jacqueline B. Thurston, Optical illusions and the visual arts, Reinhold, Studio Vista, New York, London, 1966, p. 99
- Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 66
- José Angelo Gaiarsa, Respiraçao e imaginaçao, Jose Angelo Gaiarsa, Sao Paulo, 1971, p. 68 (detail), p. 88 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 343
- Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 104
- Jaime Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Anaya, Madrid, 1993, p. 81 (detail)
- Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 111
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 485
- Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 169
- Grandes maestros de la pintura : Dalí, Altaya, Barcelona, 2001, p. 19
- Artcurial : collection Perrot Moore, Artcurial : Briest - Poulain - Le Fur, Paris, 2003, p. 262
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 383
- Dalí par Robert Descharnes, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2007, p. 33 (indirect image)
- Visual deception, The Chunichi Shimbun, [Tòquio], 2009, p. 141
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 79
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