Cat. no. P 252
Vertigo or the Tower of Pleasure
Description
- Date:
- 1930
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 60 x 50 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated upper left corner: a Gala Salvador Dali 1930
- Location:
- Private collection
Provenance
- Prince J. L. de Faucigny-Lucinge, Paris
- Carlo Ponti, Rome
Exhibitions
- 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/1956 - 10/09/1956, cat. no. 12
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 13
- 1971, Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, 29/01/1971 - 28/03/1971, cat. no. 7
Bibliography
- "Nekoliko reci povodom «nacrta»/pokusaji simulacija/ da li je humor moralan stav", Nadrealizam Danas i Ovde, 31/01/1932, Beograd, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, La Conquête de l'irrationnel, Éditions Surréalistes, Paris, 1935, il. 33
- Salvador Dalí, Éditions de la Connaissance, Bruxelles, 1956, p. 20
- Dalí, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1957, p. 5 (detail)
- Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 13
- Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 61
- Louisiana Revy : Salvador Dalí, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1973, p. 8
- Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, il. 17, p. 101
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 159
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Dalí, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1977, p. 88 (detail), p. 248 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 163
- Ángel González García, "Salvador Dalí: la audacia cotidiana de un gran impostor", El País, 15/12/1979, Madrid, p. 7
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 38
- Clarà, Dalí, Monturiol, Pla, Vayreda, Diputació Provincial de Girona, Nou Art Thor, Girona, Barcelona, 1983, p. 13
- Jaume Socias, Dalí, Nou Art, Barcelona, 1983, p. 13 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Meisterwerke der dreissiger Jahre, Schirmer-Mosel, München, 1989, il. 7
- Summa artis | Pintura y escultura española del siglo XX : 1900-1939, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1993, p. 487
- Jaime Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Anaya, Madrid, 1993, p. 64
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 167 (2 details)
- Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 28
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 117
- Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 28
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 159
- Dalí. Arquitectura, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, [Figueres], [Barcelona], 1996, p. 133
- Fèlix Fanés, "El joc lúgubre de Salvador Dalí", Locus amoenus, 31/12/1996, Barcelona, p. 216 (detail)
- Fèlix Fanés, Salvador Dalí, la construcción de la imagen : 1925-1930, Electa, [Madrid], 1999, p. 165
- Juan Antonio Ramírez, Dalí: lo crudo y lo podrido, A. Machado Libros, Madrid, 2002, p. 97
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 95
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 95
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 60 (detail)
- Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 17
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