Moment of Transition
Cat. no. P 320
Moment of Transition
Description
- Date:
- 1934
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 54 x 64.5 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right corner: Salvador Dali 34
- Location:
- Private collection
Provenance
- Peter Watson
- André-François Petit, Paris
- Private collection, Geneve
- Auctioned at Christie's, December 5th 1983
- Viktor and Marianne Langen collection
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Christie's, New York, May 6th, 2014
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, London, March 2nd, 2017
Exhibitions
- 1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, 10/12/1936 - 09/01/1937, cat. no. 1
- 1968, Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Obsessions et Visions, 01/05/1968 - 30/06/1968, cat. no. 18
- 1970, Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, 01/11/1970 - 31/12/1970, cat. no. 31
- 1973, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 06/10/1973 - 02/12/1973, cat. no. 15
- 1974, Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, 14/03/1974 - 05/05/1974, cat. no. 9
- 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 183
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 01/06/2007 - 09/09/2007, il. 24
Bibliography
- Obsessions et Visions, Galerie André François Petit, Paris, 1968, il. 18
- Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, Galerie André François Petit, Paris, [1970], il. 31
- André Parinaud, "Galerie du Monde. Dali delire", La Galerie, 31/01/1971, Paris, p. 90
- Louisiana Revy : Salvador Dalí, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1973, p. 18
- "Salvador Dalí", Moderna Museet Stockholm, 26/12/1973, Stockholm, p. 23
- Salvador Dalí, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am main, 1974, p. 23
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 251
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 97
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 75
- René Passeron, Enciclopedia del surrealismo, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1982, p. 144
- Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 19, p. 87
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Dalí (il.), Il Fantastico idalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia, Del Drago, Milano, 1986, p. 150-151
- Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1988, il. 19, p. 87
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 197
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 150
- Surrealismus 1914 - 1944 : Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hatje Cantz, Düsseldorf, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002, p. 215
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 135
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 135
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí the impresario of surrealism, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, p. 62
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, p. 62
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, París, 2004, p. 62
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 47
- Une image peut en cacher une autre : Arcimboldo, Dali, Raetz, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2009, p. 249
- Le Surrealisme c'est moi!, Kunsthalle, Wien, 2011, p. 143
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