The Sublime Moment
Cat. no. P 472
The Sublime Moment
Description
- Date:
- 1938
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 38 x 47 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right corner: Gala Salvador Dalí 1938
- Location:
- Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Provenance
- Julien Levy Gallery, New York
- Slg. Dr. Theodore W. Braasch, Newark, New York
- Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
- Perls Galleries, New York
Exhibitions
- 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21/03/1939 - 18/04/1939, cat. no. 21
- 1940, México, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Exposición internacional del Surrealismo, 1940, cat. no. 23
- 1941, Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Salvador Dalí, 10/09/1941 - 05/10/1941, cat. no. 16 ?
- 1941, Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Salvador Dali, 23/05/1941 - 14/06/1941, cat. no. 23
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 37
- 1942, Indianapolis, The John Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis Museum of Art), [Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali], 05/04/1942 - 04/05/1942, cat. no. 37
- 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
- 1946, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Four Spaniards : Dali, Gris, Miro, Picasso, 24/01/1946 - 03/03/1946, cat. no. 9
- 1947, Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí, an exhibition, 08/10/1947 - 09/11/1947, cat. no. 13
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 98
- 1969, New York, Perls Galleries, 24 Major Acquisitions, 08/04/1969 - 07/05/1969, cat. no. 6
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 65
- 1973, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 06/10/1973 - 02/12/1973, cat. no. 21
- 1974, Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, 14/03/1974 - 05/05/1974, cat. no. 13
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 201
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 37
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 55
- 2002, París, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 06/03/2002 - 24/06/2002, no reference
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 187
- 2009, Stuttgart, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum und Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Gegen Jede Vernunft. Surrealismus Paris - Prag, 14/11/2009 - 14/02/2010, núm. cat 92
Bibliography
- Exposición internacional del surrealismo, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, México, (1940), n. p.
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 65
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, p. XIII (detail)
- "Art in the Modern Sublime State", Star, 22/03/1942, Washington, D. C., n. p. (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. XIII (detail)
- Juan Cortés, "Salvador Dalí", Liceo, 31/12/1945, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, an exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1947, n. p.
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 31
- Salvador Dalí, La Vie secrète de Salvador Dalí, La Table Ronde, Paris, 1952, between pp. 224-225 (detail)
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- A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 50
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- 24 major acquisitions, Perls Galleries, New York, 1969, n. p.
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- Salvador Dalí, Das Geheime leben des Salvador Dalí, Schirmer-Mosel, München, 1984, p. 441 (detail)
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- Exposición de esculturas de Salvador Dalí, Generalitat de Catalunya, [Barcelona], 1986, p. 11
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- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 315
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- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Dallibres, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2005, p. 30-31 (indirect image)
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- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, París, 2011, p. 145
- Encuentros con los años '30, La Fábrica, MNCARS, Madrid, Madrid, 2012, p. 348 (indirect image)
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