Cat. no. P 414
Necrophilic spring
Description
- Date:
- 1936
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 54 x 65 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower left corner: Gala Salvador Dali 1936
- Location:
- Private collection
Provenance
- Elsa Schiaparelli, Paris
- Galería Theo, Madrid
- Elvira G. de Mignoni
- Private collection, Amsterdam
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, December 10th, 1998
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, February 5th, 2012
Exhibitions
- 1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, 10/12/1936 - 09/01/1937, cat. no. 5
- 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/1956 - 10/09/1956, cat. no. 27
- 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 157
- 2011, Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Surrealism in Paris, 02/10/2011 - 29/01/2012, p. 241
Bibliography
- Salvador Dalí, Éditions de la Connaissance, Bruxelles, 1956, p. 27
- Julián Gállego, "Crónica de París: Veinte años de adquisiciones del Louvre", Goya, 31/01/1968, Madrid, p. 238 (detail)
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 78-79 (detail)
- 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 118
- Robert Descharnes, Le Parfum Salvador Dalí, Ray International, [S.l.], 1983, p. 11 (Il. 1)
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Dalí (il.), Il Fantastico idalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia, Del Drago, Milano, 1986, p. 215 (detail)
- Veinte años : 20 galeria Theo, Theo, Madrid, 1988, n. p. (indirect image)
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 114
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 257
- Christie's Spanish Masters, Christie's, London, 1998, cover, p. 37
- Antoni Gaudí Salvador Dalí, Loft, Barcelona, 2002, p. 62, p. 78
- Sebastià Roig, Jordi Puig, Dalí : el triangle de l'Empordà, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, Figueres, Menorca, 2003, p. 29
- Dilys E. Blum, Shocking! the art and fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2003, p. 139
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 172
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 172
- Surrealism in Paris, Hatje Kantz, Basilea, 2011, p. 241
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