Imatge mediumnique-paranoïaque (Mediumnistic-Paranoiac Image)

Image medianimique paranoique

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

Cat. no. P 427

Imatge mediumnique-paranoïaque (Mediumnistic-Paranoiac Image)

Image medianimique paranoique

Description

Date:
c. 1934
Technique:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
19 x 22.8 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower left corner: Gala Salvador Dalí / 1935
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. Edward James
  2. Auctioned at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 30th, 1981
  3. G. E. D. Nahmad, Geneva

Observations

This painting is entitled "Image mediumnique-paranoique" for we believe it may correspond to the work Dalí presented at the exhibition held at Galeries Catalonia of Barcelona, from the 2nd to the 4th of October 1934, number 3. The following year, this same work illustrates the article written by Salvador Dalí: "Les eaux que nous nageons" published in "Cahiers d'Art", number V-VI, 1935, with the title "Image mediumnique-paranoique". This title is not translated since "medianimique" is a word invented by Dalí. Although this painting is signed and dated in 1935, the iconographic elements correspond to the ones in paintings from 1934. For this reason the artwork has been moved to the 1934 period.

Exhibitions

  1. 1934, Barcelona, Galeries d'Art Catalònia, Salvador Dalí, 02/10/1934 - 04/10/1934, cat. no. 3
  2. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 39
  3. 1972, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, July - September 1972, cat. no. 2
  4. 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 233
  5. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 142
  6. 1999, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, 04/06/1999 - 12/09/1999, cat. no. 52
  7. 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 156

Bibliography

  1. Salvador Dalí, "Les eaux ou nous nageons", Cahiers D'art, 31/12/1935, Paris, p. 122
  2. Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. 9
  3. Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 39
  4. Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1972, p. 6
  5. Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 298
  6. Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 100
  7. Twenty-eight works from the Edward James collection, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1981, p. 36
  8. "Dali'nin bilinmeyen yapitlari satisa çikariliyor", Sanat Dergisi, 15/03/1981, Istambul, p. 33 (detail)
  9. Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 123
  10. Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1983, p. 48
  11. Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 48
  12. Jaime Balleste, "Triunfo de Monet en la subastas de Nueva York", Abc, 28/11/1985, Madrid, p. 107
  13. Monic Amstad, "Edward James, Poet, Surrealist, Exzentriker", Du, 31/12/1987, Zürich, Suïssa, p. 31
  14. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 185
  15. Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 90
  16. Alessandr Rogin, [Salvador Dalí : el mite i la realitat], Republica, Moscou, 1992, p. 73
  17. Nathaniel Harris, The Life and works of Dalí, Parragon, [Regne Unit], 1994, p. 32-33
  18. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 264
  19. Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 180
  20. Madrid - Barcelona 1930-1936. La tradició d'alló que és nou, Fundació "La Caixa", Barcelona, 1997, p. 22
  21. Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 106
  22. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 155
  23. Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 156
  24. Roger Rothman, Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small, University of Nebraska, Lincoln & London, 2012, p. 111
  25. Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 32 (indirect image)
  26. Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, p. 142

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