Imperial violets
Cat. no. P 474
Imperial violets
Description
- Date:
- 1938
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 100 x 142.5 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower left: Gala Salvador Dalí 1938
- Location:
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
Provenance
- Edward James
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Auctioned at Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, October 22nd, 1975
- Galería Guereta, Madrid
- Arango collection
Exhibitions
- 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21/03/1939 - 18/04/1939, cat. no. 7
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 38
- 1942, Indianapolis, The John Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis Museum of Art), [Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali], 05/04/1942 - 04/05/1942, cat. no. 38
- 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
- 1953, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Fiesta Exhibition Picasso, Gris, Miro, Dali, 14/08/1953 - 30/08/1953, cat. no. 59
- 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/1956 - 10/09/1956, cat. no. 29
- 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 25
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 94
- 1967, Torino, Galleria Civica d'Art Moderna, Le Muse inquietanti : maestri del surrealismo, November 1967 - January 1968, cat. no. 230
- 1968, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dali : peintures, aquarelles, dessins, estampes, etc, 01/03/1968 - 31/03/1968, cat. no. 13
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 64
- 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15/04/1983 - 29/05/1983, cat. no. 168
- 1985, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux Arts, Picasso, Miró, Dalí : évocations d'Espagne, 26/09/1985 - 22/12/1985, cat. no. 27
- 1987, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, El Siglo de Picasso, 29/01/1987 - 13/03/1988, cat. no. 63
- 1987, Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Cinq siècles d'art espagnol : le siècle de Picasso, 10/10/1987 - 03/01/1988, cat. no. 67
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 36
- 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. 22
- 1992, Barcelona, La Pedrera, Avantguardes a Catalunya, 16/07/1992 - 30/09/1992, cat. no. 236
- 1998, Lisboa, Museu do Chiado, De Picasso a Dalí : as raízes da vanguarda espanhola (1907-1936), 24/06/1998 - 25/09/1998, cat. no. 19
- 1999, Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, El Bodegón español: de Zurbarán a Picasso, 13/12/1999 - 19/04/2000, cat. no. 75
- 2001, Segovia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Dalí en las colecciones españolas, 09/10/2001 - 06/01/2002, cat. no. 19
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 190
- 2011, Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Surrealism in Paris, 02/10/2011 - 29/01/2012, p. 246
Bibliography
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 65
- [Anunci Corbates Mr. Currach], Esquire, 31/10/1944, Chicago, p. 37 (detail)
- Catalog of works by Salvador Dalí in public museum collections, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland [Ohio], 1956, p. 17
- Salvador Dalí, Éditions de la Connaissance, Bruxelles, 1956, p. 29
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- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 75
- Chagall, Dalí, Ernst, Kawade Shobo, [S.l.], 1966, Il. 42
- Luigi Carluccio, Le Muse inquietanti : maestri del surrealismo, Amici Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Torino, Torino, [1967], p. 170
- Salvador Dali : peintures, aquarelles, dessins, estampes, etc, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, 1968, il. 13
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- Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 64
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 20-21 (detail)
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- Hommage à Dalí, Vilo, Paris, 1980, p. 78
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- 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 133
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- Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 133
- Cinq siècles d'art espagnol | Le Siècle de Picasso, Ministerio de Cultura, Paris-Musées, [Madrid], Paris, 1987, p. 122
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- Louisiana revy, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 59
- Jaume Socias Palau, "Fin y comienzo de Salvador Dalí", Goya, Revista de Arte, 01/02/1989, Madrid, p. 219
- Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural, Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 115
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- El Bodegón español: de Zurbarán a Picasso, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, 1999, p. 276
- Dalí en las colecciones españolas, Museo de arte contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, 2001, p. 89
- Javier Pérez Andújar, Salvador Dalí : a la conquista de lo irracional, Algaba, Madrid, 2003, n. p.
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- Carmen Giménez, Francisco Calvo Serraller, Pintura española de El Greco a Picasso : el tiempo, la verdad y la historia., Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX), Guggenheim Museum, Tf. editores, Madrid, Nueva York, Madrid, 2006, p. 100
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