Quasi-grey picture which, closely seen, is an abstract one; seen from two metres is the Sistine Madonna of Raphael; and from fifteen metres is the ear of an angel measuring one metre and a half; which is painted with anti-matter; therefore with pure energy
Antimatter Ear
Madonna
Cat. no. P 734
Quasi-grey picture which, closely seen, is an abstract one; seen from two metres is the Sistine Madonna of Raphael; and from fifteen metres is the ear of an angel measuring one metre and a half; which is painted with anti-matter; therefore with pure energy
Antimatter Ear
Madonna
Description
- Date:
- 1958
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 225.7 x 191.1 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated center left: Dalí / 1958
- Location:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Drue Heinz, in memory of Mr. Henry J. Heinz, 1987
Provenance
- Carstairs Gallery, New York
- Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Heinz II, New York
Exhibitions
- 1958, New York, Carstairs Gallery, Salvador Dali, December 1958 - January 1959, cat. no. 1
- 1960, New York, D'Arcy Galleries, Internation Surrealist Exhibition: Surrealist Intrusion in the Enchanters Domain, 29/11/1960 - 14/01/1961, cat. no. 32
- 1963, Fredericton, The Beaverbook Art Gallery, The Dunn International an exhibition of contemporary art, 07/09/1963 - 06/10/1963, cat. no. 19
- 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 56
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, addendum p. 4
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 86
- 1971, Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, 29/01/1971 - 28/03/1971, cat. no. 71
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14/05/1980 - 29/06/1980, cat. no. 217
- 1982, Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 28/02/1982 - 06/04/1982, cat. no. 21
- 1985, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux Arts, Picasso, Miró, Dalí : évocations d'Espagne, 26/09/1985 - 22/12/1985, cat. no. 40
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 264
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 233
- 2007, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Lo[s] Cinético[s], 27/03/2007 - 20/08/2007, p. 83
- 2010, Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí: The late work, 07/07/2010 - 09/02/2011, cat. no. 27
Bibliography
- "The Dali News", Time, 05/01/1959, New York, n. p.
- Miguel Utrillo, "Dalí en zig-zag", Blanco y Negro, 10/01/1959, Madrid, n. p. (detail)
- [Salvador Dalí «The Ear of an Angel» French Masters of the XIX and XX Century. Carstairs Gallery] [anunci], The Burlington Magazine, 31/12/1960, London, p. XVIII
- The Dunn International : an exhibition of contemporary art, The Beaverbook art Gallery, Tate Gallery, Fredericton, Londres, 1963, n. p.
- Dunn international : an exhibition of contemporary painting sponsored by the Sir James Dunn Foundation, Arts Council, [S.l.], 1963, il. 19 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1964, p. 110
- Paul H. Walton, Dali / Miró, Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1967, il. 44
- Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 129 (detail)
- Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 86
- Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 182
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dalí, the masterworks, The Reynolds Morse Foundation, Cleveland, 1971, p. 23
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 182
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 182, p. II (indirect image)
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 153 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 388
- Petit journal Salvador Dalí, Centre Georges Pompidou, [París], 1979, p. 12
- Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, Edition Art Life, [S.l.], 1982, cat. no. 21
- Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 184
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 114 (detail)
- Maria Gabriella Guglielmi, Fotografia e paranoia. L'occhio di Salvador Dalí, Arnica, Roma, 1983, p. 65
- Picasso, Miró, Dalí : évocations d'Espagne, Palais des Beaux-Arts. Europalia 85 España, Charleroi, 1985, p. 247
- Effetto Arcimboldo, Bompiani, Milano, 1987, p. 357
- [Salvador Dalí. Spanish, born 1904. Madonna], Recent Acquisitions (metropolitan Museum Of Art), 31/12/1987, New York, p. 62
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 349
- Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural, Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 42
- Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 105
- Marcel Duchamp, Thames & Hudson, London, 1993, [27-28 de Novembre]
- André Bouguenec, Salvador Dalí : philosophe et esotériste incompris, Opéra, Nantes, 1994, P. XV
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- Grace Megwinoff Andréu, Dalí: Salvador de la pintura, Grace Megwinoff Andréu, San Juan (Puerto Rico), 1998, p. 36
- Dawn Ades, Dalí, Thames and Hudson, London, 1998, p. 184 (Il. 149)
- Hypermental : rampant reality 1950-2000, from Salvador Dalí to Jeff Koons, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany, 2000, p. 11
- Os dalís de Dalí, Fundación Caixa Galicia, [A Coruña], 2003, p. 126 (indirect image)
- Dalí : afinitats electives, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura, Barcelona, 2004, p. 96
- Alyse Gaultier, L'Abcdaire de Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 86
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 145 (detail)
- Catherine Millet, Dalí et moi, Gallimard, [París], 2005, p. 88, p. 89 (detail)
- Pollock to Pop : America's brush with Dalí, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 52
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 387
- In the company of Dali : the photographs of Robert Whitaker, Touchstone Books, Sutton Valence, 2006, p. 88 (indirect image) (detail)
- Lo[s] Cinético[s], Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Bancaja, Madrid, [Madrid], 2007, p. 93
- The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, p. 2 (indirect image), p. 17 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 83
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, París, 2011, p. 218
- Gabriel Montua, Dalís 20. Jahrhundert : die westliche Kunst zwischen Politik, Markt und Medien, De Gruyter, Boston, Berlin, 2015, p. 394
- Dalí: Il sogno del Classico, Skira, Milano, 2016, p. 35
- Torsten Otte, Salvador Dalí & Andy Warhol : encounters in New York and beyond, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, 2016, p. [383]
- Dalí atómico, Fundación Bancaria "la Caixa", [Barcelona], 2018, p. 156
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