Aerodynamic Chair

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007

Cat. no. P 394

Aerodynamic Chair

Description

Date:
c. 1934
Technique:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
22 x 15.9 cm
Signature:
Signer lower right: S DALI
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. collection

Observations

This work was used in an advertising campaign for De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1941.

Exhibitions

  1. 1940, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, A decade of painting : 1929-1939, 23/01/1940 - 25/02/1940, cat. no. 42
  2. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 19

Bibliography

  1. James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 50
  2. Salvador Dalí, "[Anunci] De Beer's Diamonds", Vogue, 15/04/1941, Greenwich, Conn, n. p.
  3. "SHOAL OF TIME", Town & Country, 30/04/1941, New York, p. 92
  4. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 237
  5. El País de Dalí, Consorci del Museu de l'Empordà, Figueres, 2004, p. 74 (indirect image)
  6. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Juan José Lahuerta, Salvador Dalí i les revistes, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2008, il. 180 (indirect image)

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