Description

Date:

c. 1938

Technique:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

91.5 x 117.5 cm

Signature:

Unsigned and undated

Location:

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Provenance

1. Edward James
2. Edward James Foundation, West Dean, Chichester

Exhibitions

1. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 36
2. 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. 36
3. 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
4. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 95
5. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 62
6. 1971, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dali Art-in-Jewels Exhibition & Paintings, 08/06/1971 - 10/07/1971, cat. no. 11
7. 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 251
8. 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 166
9. 1985, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux Arts, Picasso, Miró, Dalí : évocations d'Espagne, 26/09/1985 - 22/12/1985, cat. no. 26
10. 1987, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, El Siglo de Picasso, 29/01/1987 - 13/03/1988, cat. no. 64
11. 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. 68
12. 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 38
13. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 207
14. 1998, Brighton, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, A surreal life: Edward James, 1907-1984, 25/04/1998 - 26/07/1998, cat. no. 145
15. 2000, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's optical illusions, 21/01/2000 - 26/03/2000, cat. no. 27
16. 2002, París, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 06/03/2002 - 24/06/2002, no reference
17. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 179
18. 2009, Stuttgart, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum und Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Gegen Jede Vernunft. Surrealismus Paris - Prag, 14/11/2009 - 14/02/2010, núm. cat 94
19. 2010, Milano, Palazzo Reale, Salvador Dalí, il sogno si avvicina, 22/09/2010 - 30/01/2011, no reference
20. 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 203
21. 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. 203

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