Walls of Babylon

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2014 Photo © Christie’s Images Limited 2014

Cat. no. P 1148

Walls of Babylon

Description

Date:
c. 1955
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27.4 x 77.2 cm
Signature:
Signed lower right corner: Dalí
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. Carstairs Gallery, New York
  2. Lynn Sterling (Lynn Shapray), Atlanta
  3. Auslew Art Gallery, Norfolk
  4. Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
  5. European private collection
  6. Auctioned at Christie's, London, February 6th, 2001

Bibliography

  1. "1930s-era Dali shown", Ledger-star, 14/03/1970, Norfolk, Va., n. p.
  2. Tim Morton, "Walls of Babylon' put up in Norfolk", Virginian Pilot, 15/03/1970, Norfolk, Va., n. p. (indirect image)
  3. Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Alfred H. Barr Jr. : missionary for the modern, Contemporany Books, Chicago, 1989, n. p.
  4. The Art of the Surreal, Christie's, London, 2001, p. 9

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