The Great Paranoic
Cat. no. P 435
The Great Paranoic
Description
- Date:
- 1936
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 62 x 62 cm
- Signature:
- Signed on the front, lower middle: Gala Salvador Dali 1936
- Location:
- Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Provenance
- Julien Levy Gallery, New York
- Edward James
- Edward James Foundation, West Dean, Chichester
Observations
Although this painting appears illustrated in the catalogue published for the exhibition held at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York from December 10th 1936 to January 9th 1937, the title Dalí used to exhibit this work cannot be identified with certainty. It could have been "The great dreamer of Dalí" number 2.
Exhibitions
- 1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, 10/12/1936 - 09/01/1937, cat. no. 2
- 1938, Gloucester, Guildhall, Realism and Surrealism : An Exhibition of Several Phases of Contemporary Art, 28/05/1938 - 26/06/1938, cat. no. 29
- 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 134
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 75
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 50
- 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 216
- 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 156
- 1998, Brighton, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, A surreal life: Edward James, 1907-1984, 25/04/1998 - 26/07/1998, cat. no. 142
- 2000, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's optical illusions, 21/01/2000 - 26/03/2000, cat. no. 21
- 2003, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning, 22/02/2003 - 09/06/2003, p. 230
- 2006, Köln, Museum Ludwig, Salvador Dalí : La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier, 18/03/2006 - 25/06/2006, cat. no. 46
- 2010, Milano, Palazzo Reale, Salvador Dalí, il sogno si avvicina, 22/09/2010 - 30/01/2011, no reference
- 2012, Ostfildern, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta (13) : the book of the books, catalog 1/3, 09/06/2012 - 16/09/2012, p. 162 (imatge indirecta)
- 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 197
- 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. 197
Bibliography
- Souvenir - Catalogue, Julien Levy Gallery, [New York], [1936/37], n. p.
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 26
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- Chagall, Dalí, Ernst, Kawade Shobo, [S.l.], 1966, Il. 40
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- -, -, -, Marc Aufraise, Marc Aufraise, Caroline Barbier de reulle, Marijke Peyser-Verhaar, Astrid Ruffa, Ha, Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne [Coberta] | [Sumari] | Éditorial | Les prémices du théâtre photographique de Salvador Dalí (1932-1933) | Portraits de fantasmes | Salvador Dalí et la musiqu, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 79
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