Le devenir géologique (Geological Destiny)
Cat. no. P 327
Le devenir géologique (Geological Destiny)
Description
- Date:
- 1933
- Technique:
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions:
- 21 x 16 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right corner: [...] Salvador Dali / febrier 1933
- Location:
- Private collection
Provenance
- Julien Green, Paris
Observations
In Julien Greens' memoirs, "Les années faciles", we read the following about this work: "28 February. The day before yesterday to Dalí's place to pick up my painting since this is my month. Twelve people have committed to give the painter a sort of small rent for this year, in exchange for which, each person will receive either a large or a small painting plus two drawings. We drew lots to see who would get which month. To my delight, February is my month, which has exempted me from waiting a long time. I have the choice of a big painting with an admirable rocky landscape in the background and in the foreground a kind of Russian general with sideburns, naked and with his head sadly inclined showing his cranium stuffed with shells and pearls.; and a small canvas which he calls "Devenir géologique", and that shows a horse in the process of being transformed into a rock in the middle of the desert. Dalí is leaving for Spain and talks with horror of the customs formalities and of the thousands of little inconveniences of a train trip, since he's a bit like a child who is frightened by life (Julien Green, "Les années faciles, journal 1926-1934", Paris, 1961, p. 376-377).
Exhibitions
- 1933, Paris, Pierre Colle, Exposition Salvador Dali, 19/06/1933 - 29/06/1933, cat. no. 10
- 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 167
Bibliography
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 177
- José Luis Rubio, "El último show de Dalí", Cambio 16, 16/12/1979, Madrid, p. 93
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. V
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Dalí (il.), Il Fantastico idalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia, Del Drago, Milano, 1986, p. 363
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 145
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 145
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 205
- Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Evergreen (Benedikt Taschen), [Köln], 1996, p. 37
- Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 80 (detail)
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 131
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 131
- Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 227
- Georges Beauté, Little Dalí a l'escola, Philippe Delécusse, Escaldes-Engordany (Principat d'Andorra), 2005, p. 52 (detail)
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 167
- Roger Rothman, Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small, University of Nebraska, Lincoln & London, 2012, p. 99
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 34
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