Description

Date:

1937

Technique:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

51 x 77 cm

Signature:

Signed and dated lower left: Gala Salvador Dali 1937

Location:

Private collection

Provenance

1. Edward James
2. Auctioned at Sotheby's, Londres, June 30th, 1976
3. Cavalieri Holding, Geneva
4. Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, May 9th, 1995

Observations

Exhibitions

1. 1973, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 06/10/1973 - 02/12/1973, cat. no. 20
2. 1974, Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, 14/03/1974 - 05/05/1974, cat. no. 12
3. 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 227
4. 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15/04/1983 - 29/05/1983, cat. no. 161
5. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 186
6. 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 32
7. 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 40
8. 2003, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning, 22/02/2003 - 09/06/2003, p. 69
9. 2009, Paris, Galeries Nationales. Grand Palais, Une image peut en cacher une autre: Arcimboldo, Dali, Raetz, 08/04/2009 - 06/07/2009, cat. no. 27
10. 2011, Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Surrealism in Paris, 02/10/2011 - 29/01/2012, p. 244-245

Bibliography

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2. "Salvador Dalí", Moderna Museet Stockholm, 26/12/1973, Stockholm, p. 16
3. Salvador Dalí, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am main, 1974, p. 26
4. Marianna Minola de Gallotti, "Exposición Salvador Dalí en el Museo Louisiana de Humlebaek (dinamarca)", La Vanguardia Española, 21/06/1974, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
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7. Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 153
8. Marianna Minola de Galloti, "Salvador Dalí en el «Beaubourg» de París", Goya, 31/07/1980, Madrid, p. 62 (detail)
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12. Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 27
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14. Salvador Dalí, Meisterwerke der dreissiger Jahre, Schirmer-Mosel, München, 1989, il. 28
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20. Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 107
21. Paris : 1937-1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Gallimard, Paris, Paris, 1992, p. 153 (indirect image)
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23. Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 194
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29. Robert Goff, The Essential Salvador Dalí, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998, p. 78-79 (detail)
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31. The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, dustjacket (detail), p. 69
32. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 198
33. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 198
34. Alyse Gaultier, The Little book of Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 68-69 (detail)
35. Alyse Gaultier, L'Abcdaire de Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 80-81 (detail)
36. Tonia Raquejo, Dalí: metamorfosis, Edilupa, [Madrid], 2004, p. 66 (detail), p. 123
37. Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 62
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42. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 39
43. David Lomas, Narcissus reflected : the myth of Narcissus in surrealist and contemporary art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2011, p. 34
44. Emmanuelle Polack, Philippe Dagen, Les Carnets de Rose Valland : li pillage des collections privées d'oeuvres d'art en France durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Fage Éditions, Lyon, 2011, p. 119 (indirect image)
45. Surrealism in Paris, Hatje Kantz, Basilea, 2011, p. 244-245
46. Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 3 (detail), p. 42, reverse (detail)

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