Untitled
Topological Contortion of a Female Figure Becoming a Cello
Cat. no. P 1008
Untitled
Topological Contortion of a Female Figure Becoming a Cello
Description
- Date:
- c. 1983
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 60 x 63.5 cm
- Signature:
- Unsigned and undated
- Location:
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Dalí bequest
Provenance
- Artist's collection
Observations
Although this work was first shown with the title "Topological Distortion of a Female Figure Becoming a Cello", we have corrected the word "distortion", which is evidently a mistake, most likely of transcription, to "contortion".
Exhibitions
- 1984, [Aalborg], Husets Galleri, Salvador Dalí, Pitxot, Evarist Vallès, 25/05/1984 - 28/06/1984, cat. no. 17
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 67
- 1990, México, D. F., Centro Cultural / Arte contemporáneo, Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 01/11/1990 - 31/01/1991, cat. no. 39
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 135
- 2002, [Atenes], Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art, Salvador Dalí, [singularitat i mite], 23/10/2002 - 23/01/2003, cat. no. 30
- 2010, Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí: The late work, 07/07/2010 - 09/02/2011, cat. no. 40
- 2016, Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/2016 - 04/09/2016, cat. no. 127
Bibliography
- Salvador Dalí, Pitxot, Evarist Vallès, Husets Galleri, [Aalborg], 1984, p. 13
- Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 191
- Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural, Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 149
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 721
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 410
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 410
- Catherine Millet, Dalí et moi, Gallimard, [París], 2005, p. 142
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 127
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 97
- Salvador Dalí, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, 2014, p. 227
- Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, p. 232
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