The cut end of Van Gogh's ear dematerializing itself from its frightful existentialism and pi-mesonically exploding in the dazzlement of Raphael's Sistine Madonna
Cosmic Madonna
Cat. no. P 746
The cut end of Van Gogh's ear dematerializing itself from its frightful existentialism and pi-mesonically exploding in the dazzlement of Raphael's Sistine Madonna
Cosmic Madonna
Description
- Date:
- c. 1958
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 152.5 x 91.5 cm
- Signature:
- Signed lower right: Dalí
- Inscriptions:
- Signed and inscribed lowe left: "GALA Salvador Dalí, New York, january 19[...]"
- Location:
- Private collection
Provenance
- Carstairs Gallery, New York
- Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ward Jr., Memphis
- Wally Findlay Gallery, New York
- Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Glass, Miami Beach
- Mrs. Abilia Glass, Miami Beach
Exhibitions
- 1958, New York, Carstairs Gallery, Salvador Dali, December 1958 - January 1959, cat. no. 3
- 1960, New York, The Finch College Art Gallery and Museum, Paintings, drawings and watercolors of Salvador Dali, 23/05/1960 - 18/06/1960, cat. no. 20
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 149
Bibliography
- Manuel Jiménez Quilez, "Dali (tranquilo) en su rincón de Port lligat", Gaceta Ilustrada, 14/09/1957, Madrid, n. p. (detail) (indirect image)
- Anne Bolt, "Dali at home", The Tatler, 06/08/1958, London, p. 236 (indirect image)
- Miguel Utrillo, "Dalí en zig-zag", Blanco y Negro, 10/01/1959, Madrid, n. p. (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 132
- "The Madonna of Raphael", Oklahoma Journal, 12/11/1965, Oklahoma City, Okla., n. p.
- Jane Gregory, "Doctor Doesmuch For Latin", Sun Times, 04/10/1967, Chicago, Ill., n. p.
- G. B., "On the cover-Salvador Dali.", Art Voices, 21/12/1967, New York, p. 5 (indirect image)
- Guillaume Cousin, "«La télévision tactile est pour demain»", Micro et Camera, 31/01/1969, Paris, p. 6 (detail) (indirect image)
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 512
- Von Matisse bis Dalí : Das Legat Georges F. Keller an das Kunstmuseum Bern = De Matisse à Dalí : le legs Georges F. Keller au Musée des beaux-arts de Berne, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 1998, p. 46 (indirect image)
- Dalí par Robert Descharnes, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2007, p. 41 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 35
- Dalí atómico, Fundación Bancaria "la Caixa", [Barcelona], 2018, p. 157
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