Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí

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The Palace of the Wind

The Palace of the Wind
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2017

Cat. no. P 859

The Palace of the Wind

Description

Date:
1970-73
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
579 x 1150 cm
Signature:
Signed in the central panel under Gala’s feet: Dalí / G
Location:
Town Hall of Figueres, on permanent deposit at the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres

Provenance

  1. Artist's collection

Observations

Between 1969 and 1973 Dalí made three paintings for three different ceilings. The first of these is in the Palacete Albéniz (catalogue number 823) and the second is in the Castle of Púbol (catalogue number 843). The third is in the "sala nobile" or rest room of the old municipal theatre, currently the Palace of the Wind hall of the Dalí Theatre-Museum, but this painting has not always been known in this way. In numerous statements to the press during the restoration and conversion of the old theatre, Dalí explained that he was painting "The apotheosis of the Empordà" (1972). A year later he declared that this room was to be called "Hall of the Palace of the Wind, repeating the exact text of Maragall" (J. Morales, "Dalí da los últimos toques a la exposición de joyas en su museo de Figueras", Diario de Barcelona, August 7, 1973).

‘The Palace of the Wind’ consists of five panels. Dalí worked on the painting between 1969 and 1973 and presented it in several phases, the first being on November 13, 1970, on the occasion of the symbolic inauguration of the Dalí Museum, when the central panel was hoisted into place, and taken down the next day to enable the conversion of the old theatre to continue. He carried on with the painting during 1971-72 in the studio in the house at Portlligat, completing the central part and the side panels. The entire work was put in place on the ceiling some time in 1972. Finally, before the inauguration of the exhibition ‘Dalí su arte en joyas’, which was held at the Theatre-Museum from August 11 to September 11, 1973, the painter declared the work completed in the presence of the media.

Bibliography

  1. José Antonio Vidal Cuadras, "El Museo Dali visto por Dali", La Actualidad Española, 06-12/08/1970, Barcelona, p. 51 (detail) (indirect image)
  2. Enrique Sabater, "Nuevos títulos para Dalí : «Universal desconcertante » ...", Los Sitios, 12/08/1970, Girona, p. 5 (detail) (indirect image)
  3. "Salvador Dalí hizo entrega de su primera pintura para el museo de su nombre", Ampurdan, 18-24/11/1970, Figueres, n. p. (indirect image)
  4. Manuel Pont i Bosch, "V.P. al Museu Dalí", Vida Parroquial, 11/1970, Figueres, cover
  5. A. Reynolds Morse, Dalí, the masterworks, The Reynolds Morse Foundation, Cleveland, 1971, cover (indirect image)
  6. Robert Descharnes, Dalí de Gala, Edita, Lausanne, [1972], p. 222 (detail), p. 223 (detail)
  7. Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 204 (indirect image)
  8. Salvador Dalí : a guide to his works in public museums, The Dali Museum, Cleveland [Ohio], 1973, p. [89] (indirect image) (detail)
  9. "Dalí prepara su Museo de Figueras", La Vanguardia Española, 03/07/1973, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
  10. "Salvador Dalí recibe en su residencia de Port Lligat", Los Sitios, 10/08/1973, Girona, n. p. (detail) (indirect image)
  11. "«Peregrinación» a Port-Lligat", Los Sitios, 10/08/1973, Girona, n. p. (detail) (indirect image)
  12. "¿De quién es el Museo Dalí?", Los Sitios, 18/08/1973, Girona, p. 5 (indirect image) (detail)
  13. "El museo de Salvador Dalí", Blanco y Negro, 25/08/1973, Madrid, p. 14-17 (indirect image) (details)
  14. "Dalí siguió siendo noticia, esta vez con su exposición de joyas", Los Sitios, 14/12/1973, Girona, p. 5 (indirect image)
  15. Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 208 (indirect image), p. 204 (detail)
  16. Dalí, La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, Bilbao, 1974, p. 28-29 (detail)
  17. Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, il. 62 (detail), p. 80 (indirect image)
  18. Jaume Fabre, "L'art al carrer i la cultura popular", Presència, 24-30/08/1974, Girona, p. 29
  19. "El día 28, apertura oficial del Museo Dalí", Los Sitios, 05/09/1974, Girona, cover (indirect image) (detail)
  20. Josep Carles Clemente, "El Museo Teatro Dalí explicado por el propio Dalí", La Actualidad Española, 10-16/10/1974, Madrid, p. 55
  21. "Un teatro per il primattore", BolaffiArte, 10/1974, Torino, p. 78 (details)
  22. Berrocal, "Salvador Dali giudicato da un amico-collega. Vento di follia nella sua arte", Oggi, 04-10/12/1974, Milano, p. 75 (indirect image)
  23. Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 263 (indirect image), p. 37 (indirect image)
  24. Jesús Mariñas, "Museo Dalí : problema de donaciones", Los Sitios, 19/02/1975, Girona, p. 4 (detail) (indirect image)
  25. J. Víctor Gay, "El fenomeno Dali y su museo de Figueras", Los Sitios, 08/10/1976, Girona, n. p. (detail) (indirect image)
  26. Dalí, Gesemtverband des deutschen Steinkohlenbergbaus, Essen, 1977, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
  27. Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Dalí, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1977, p. 210-211 (detail), p. 211 (detail)
  28. Los Diez Mandamientos por Salvador Dalí, Colecciones Hispánicas, Barcelona, 1977, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
  29. Robert Descharnes, S. Terayama, Dalí: the book of great masters, Zauho, Tokyo, 1978, il. 56
  30. Josep Iglésias Del Marquet, "El hacer y acentos de Salvador Dalí", Diario de Barcelona, 30/09/1978, Barcelona, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
  31. "Teatre-Museu Dalí: El primer de Catalunya", 9 Pais, 04/10/1978, Figueres, n. p. (detail) (indirect image)
  32. Luis Romero, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1979, p. 37 (indirect image), p. 263 (indirect image)
  33. Josep Mª Jr. Bernils, "Los polémicos vocales permanentes del Museo Dalí", Los Sitios, 21/10/1979, Girona, p. 12 (indirect image) (detail)
  34. Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera, Salvador Dalí, Nauta, Barcelona, 1980, il. 32 (detail)
  35. Homage to Dalí, Chartwell Books, Secaucus, New Jersey, [1980], p. 62 i 153 (indirect image)
  36. Victor Vincent, "Retrospective Dali au Centre Georges-Pompidou a Paris", Journal Des Arts Et Des Antiquaires Réunis, 28/02/1980, s. l., n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
  37. Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 158-159 (detail)
  38. Dalí i els llibres, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura, Barcelona, 1982, p. 11 (indirect image) (detail)
  39. Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 133 (detail), il. 134 (detail)
  40. Distribucions d'art surrealista, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Barcelona, 1983, p. 16 (detail)
  41. Glòria Bosch i Mir, Manel Palahí, "Divendres s'inaugura l'Antològica Dalí", El Punt, 13/04/1983, Girona, p. 25 (indirect image) (detail)
  42. "El personal femení del Museu Dalí estrena uniforme lila", El Punt, 15/06/1983, Girona, p. 8 (indirect image) (detail)
  43. Dalí capital de Figueres, Ajuntament de Figueres, Figueres, 1984, il. 145
  44. Luis Romero, Josep Postius (il.), Aquel Dalí, Argos Vergara, Barcelona, 1984, cover (indirect image) (detail), p. 151 (indirect image), p. 158 (indirect image), p. 159 (indirect image), p. 160 (indirect image)
  45. Luis Romero, "Un teatro-museo-personal", Interviu, 05/12/1984, Madrid, p. 76-77 (detail)
  46. Antonio D. Olano, Nacimiento, vida, pasión, muerte, resurrección y gloria de Salvador, Domingo, Felipe, Jacinto Dalí Doménech, Cusí y Farrés, Marqués de Dalí y Púbol, Dyrsa, Madrid, 1985, p. 305 (indirect image) (detail), p. 319 (indirect image) (detail), back cover
  47. Dalí, vist per Meli, Fundación Gala-Dalí, [Figueres], 1985, n. p. (indirect image)
  48. Narcís Genís, "El bon vent de Dalí", El Punt, 21/07/1988, Girona, p. 14
  49. Meli - Dalí / Dalí - Meli, Fontana d'Or - Caixa de Girona, Girona, 1989, n. p. (indirect image)
  50. Michel Déon, Marie-France Saurat, "Dali, la saga du dernier geant du Surrealisme", Paris Match, 02/02/1989, Paris, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
  51. (Mini guia Teatre-Museu Dalí), Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 1990, p. [12]
  52. René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 122 (details)
  53. Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, cover (indirect image) (detail), p. 235 (indirect image), p. 238 (detail)
  54. Josep Playà i Maset, Dalí de l'Empordà, Labor, Barcelona, 1992, p. 63
  55. Dalí en los fondos de la Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundación Fondo de Cultura, Sevilla, 1993, p. 97
  56. Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 68, il. 69 (detail)
  57. José Luis Giménez-Frontín, Teatre-Museu Dalí, Tusquets, Electa, [Barcelona], Madrid, 1994, p. 112 (detail), p. 121 (detail)
  58. Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 68-69 (details)
  59. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 619-620-621-622-623 (details) (indirect images)
  60. Dalí. Arquitectura, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, [Figueres], [Barcelona], 1996, p. 187 (indirect image) (detail)
  61. El Genio de Salvador Dalí, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, 1996, p. 29 (indirect image) (detail)
  62. New history of world art, Shogakukan, [S.l.], 1996, il. 38 (detail)
  63. Dalí monumental, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, 1998, p. 155 (indirect image)
  64. Enrique Sabater, Las Arquitecturas de Dalí, Umberto Allemandi, Turin - London, 1998, il. 247, 248, 253, 254 (indirect image), il. 245 (detail)
  65. The Universe of Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 1999, p. 93 (indirect image), p. 137 (indirect image)
  66. Memòria dels somnis: Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Govern d'Andorra. Ministeri de Turisme i Cultura, [Andorra de la Vella], 1999, p. 254 (indirect image)
  67. The Universe of Salvador Dalí, Marugame Genichiro - Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Marugame, [Figueres], 1999, n. p.
  68. Dalí, Lacroix, Gala : el privilegio de la intimidad = Dalí, Lacroix, Gala : le privilège de l'intimité = Dalí, Lacroix, Gala : the privilege of intimacy, Fundación Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, 2000, p. 44 (indirect image), p. 45 (indirect image), p. 55 (indirect image), p. 67 (indirect image)
  69. Barbara Borngässer, Katalonien : Kunst - Landschaft - Architektur, Könemann, Köln, 2000, p. 103 (indirect image) (detail)
  70. Alberto Mario Perrone, Salvador Dalí, escándalo, transgresión y genio, Longseller, Buenos Aires, 2001, p. 144-145 (detail)
  71. Memoria de los sueños : Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, MUVIM (Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i la Modernitat), Valencia, 2001, p. 419 (indirect image)
  72. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 362-363
  73. Laia Rosa Armengol, Dalí, icono y personaje, Cátedra, Madrid, 2003, p. 313 (indirect image), p. 337 (indirect image)
  74. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 362-363
  75. Os dalís de Dalí, Fundación Caixa Galicia, [A Coruña], 2003, p. 95 (indirect image)
  76. Llàtzer Moix, La Costa Brava, Triàngle Postals, Menorca, 2003, p. 98-99
  77. Montse Gisbert, Salvador Dalí, pinta'm un somni, Serres, Barcelona, 2003, n. p.
  78. Xavier Barral i Altet, Les Indigestions de Dalí, Edicions de 1984, Barcelona, 2003, p. 65 (detail)
  79. Sebastià Roig, Jordi Puig, Dalí : el triangle de l'Empordà, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, Figueres, Menorca, 2003, p. 82-83, p. 84 (indirect image)
  80. Dalí a l'Empordà : la mirada dels fotògrafs empordanesos, Amics dels Museus Dalí, Figueres, 2003, p. 63 (indirect image), p. 68 (indirect image), p. 70 (indirect image), p. 88 (indirect image)
  81. El País de Dalí, Consorci del Museu de l'Empordà, Figueres, 2004, p. 283 (indirect image), p. 284 (detail), p. 285
  82. El Discòbol, Trabucaire, Canet, 2004, p. [19] (indirect image) (detail), p. [65] (indirect image) (detail)
  83. Enrique Sabater, L'Ull invisible, Lunwerg, Institut de Cultura de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2004, p. 24, p. 75 (detail), p. 77 (detail)
  84. Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 333 (detail)
  85. Mariona Seguranyes, El Dalí de Lacroix, Editorial Empordà, Figueres, 2004, cover, p. 41 (indirect image)
  86. Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí de Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, [Figueres], Sant Lluís, Menorca, 2005, p. 108 (indirect image) (detail), p. 109 (indirect image) (detail), p. 110-111 (indirect image), p. 115 (indirect image) (detail), p. 191
  87. Salvador Dalí : collection Marc Lacroix et à divers Salvador Dalí et ses photographes, Yann Le Mouel, Paris, 2005, p. 29, p. 30, p. 31, p. 32, p. 42, p. 53 (totes imatge indirecta i detall)
  88. Salvador Dalí i les arts : historiografia i crítica al segle XXI, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2005, p. 132 (indirect image) (detail)
  89. Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2006, cover (detail), p. 3 (indirect image), p. 107 (indirect image)
  90. Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, Ueno Royal Museum, Ueno, 2006, p. 228 (indirect image)
  91. Dalí evolució, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2006, p. 112 (indirect image)
  92. Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 49 (indirect image)
  93. Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, London, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2007, p. 333
  94. Dalí multifaceted : centenary exhibition, The Chunichi Shimbun, [S. l.], 2007, p. 218 (indirect image)
  95. Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí : foto guia, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, [Figueres], Sant Lluís, Menorca, 2007, p. 36 (indirect image), p. 37 (detail)
  96. Salvador Dalí - Enrique Sabater : Reciprocitats 1968-1980, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2008, p. 98 (indirect image) (detail)
  97. Salvador Dalí : liquid desire, National Gallery of Victoria, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Melbourne, Figueres, St. Petersburg (Florida), 2009, p. 27 (indirect image) (detail)
  98. Salvador Dalí et ses photographes : 1999 couvent des Minimes 2009, Trabucaire, Canet, 2009, n. p. (indirect image) (detail), n. p. (indirect image) (detail),
  99. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 85
  100. Museus i centres de patrimoni cultural a Catalunya, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació, Barcelona, 2010, p. 60 (indirect image) (detail)
  101. Dominika Zareba, Katalonia Barcelona, Costa Brava i Costa Dorada, Bezdroza, Kraków, 2010, p. 129 (indirect image) (detail)
  102. Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 152, p. 158 (indirect image)
  103. Figueres, Ajuntament de Figueres, Figueres, [2011], n. p.
  104. Dalí i els seus tallers, Das Edicions, Figueres, 2013, p. 84 (indirect image), p. 100 (indirect image)
  105. Memoria 2013 = Memòria 2013, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2014, p. 16 (indirect image), p. 111 (indirect image)
  106. Dalí. Pitxot. Cadaqués. Entorn a la pintura, Museu de Cadaqués, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2015, p. 89 (indirect image) (detail)
  107. Gabriel Montua, Dalís 20. Jahrhundert : die westliche Kunst zwischen Politik, Markt und Medien, De Gruyter, Boston, Berlin, 2015, il. XXXIX
  108. Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 79
  109. Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí. Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, [Figueres], Sant Lluís, Menorca, 2016, p. 13 (indirect image) (detail), p. 138 (indirect image) (detail), p. 139 (indirect image) (detail), p. 141, p. 142-143 (detail)
  110. Memoria 2015 = Memòria 2015, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2016, p. 75 (indirect image) (detail)

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