Cat. no. P 747
Pieta
Ascension
Description
- Date:
- 1958
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 115 x 123 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right: S. Dalí 1958
- Location:
- Pérez Simón Collection, Mexico
Provenance
- Carstairs Gallery, New York
- Mr. and Mrs. Georges Farkas
- Auctioned at Christie's, New York, November 2nd, 1993
Exhibitions
- 1958, New York, Carstairs Gallery, Salvador Dali, December 1958 - January 1959, cat. no. 13
- 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. 19
- 1962, Wallingford, Conn., The Choate School, The Georges Farkas Collections of Old and Modern Art Masterpieces, January - June 1962, no reference
- 1964, Hollywood Boulevard, Municipal Art Gallery, An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Salvador Dalí, 20/11/1964 - 20/12/1964, cat. no. 15
- 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Dali Monumental, 25/03/1998 - 27/05/1998, il. 47
- 2000, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's optical illusions, 21/01/2000 - 26/03/2000, cat. no. 56
- 2005, Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dalí, 16/02/2005 - 15/05/2005, cat. no. 234
- 2010, Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Du Greco à Dalí : les grands maîtres espagnols de la collection Pérez Simón, 12/03/2010 - 01/08/2010, cat. no. 63
- 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 273
- 2013, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Dalí. Todas las sugestiones poéticas y todas las posibilidades plásticas, 27/04/2013 - 02/09/2013, p. 273
Bibliography
- Miguel Utrillo, "Dalí en zig-zag", Blanco y Negro, 10/01/1959, Madrid, n. p.
- Sanka Knox, "Women Shoppers Find Art Show In Dressing Rooms Is A Poor Fit", Times, 25/11/1959, New York, n. p. (indirect image)
- "36 Paintings To Be Shown At Choate. Loan Includes Work By Dali, Renoir, Rubens, Van Dyck and Van Gogh", Register, 18/03/1962, New Haven, Conn., n. p.
- Dalí [An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Salvador Dalí], Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood Boulevard, (1964), n. p.
- "Barnsdall art gallery plans Dali showing", Times, 18/11/1964, Los Angeles, Calif., n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 512
- Dalí monumental, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, 1998, p. 55
- Dalí insights, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 1999, n. p., back cover
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. What's on calendar, Wadswoth Ahteneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, 2000, p. 5, p. 21
- Dalí's Optical Illusions, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 2000, n. p.
- Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 173
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 319
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 319
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 391
- Du Greco à Dalí : les grands maîtres espagnols de la collection Pérez Simón, Snoeck, Heule (Belgique), 2010, p. 188-189, p. 2 (detail)
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, París, 2011, p. 214
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 273
- 2012 : Memoria = Memòria, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2013, p. 124 (indirect image)
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 72
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