Description

Date:

1929

Technique:

Oil and collage on chipboard panel

Dimensions:

23.8 x 34.7 cm

Signature:

Unsigned and undated

Location:

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, 1967

Provenance

1. Galerie Goemans, Paris
2. Louis Aragon, Paris
3. Paul Éluard, Paris
4. Julien Levy Gallery, New York
5. Sidney and Harriet Janis, New York

Exhibitions

1. 1929, París, Galerie Goemans, Dalí, 20/11/1929 - 05/12/1929, cat. no. 3
2. 1934, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Works of Art : 5th Anniversary Exhibition, 20/11/1934 - 20/01/1935, cat. no. 60
3. 1935, Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of the Sidney Janis Collection of Modern Paintings, 05/04/1935 - 24/04/1935, cat. no. 16
4. 1936, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic art dada surrealism, 09/12/1936 - 17/01/1937, cat. no. 310
5. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 4
6. 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. 4
7. 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
8. 1960, New York, The Finch College Art Gallery and Museum, Paintings, drawings and watercolors of Salvador Dali, 23/05/1960 - 18/06/1960, cat. no. 2
9. 1964, New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, A selection of 20th Century art of 3 generations, 24/11/1964 - 26/12/1964, cat. no. 4
10. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 27
11. 1968, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dada, surrealism, and their heritage, 27/03/1968 - 09/06/1968, cat. no. 60
12. 1968, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. A Gift to The Museum of Modern Art, 01/01/1968 - 31/12/1968, no reference
13. 1970, Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, 28/02/1970 - 30/03/1970, cat. no. 11
14. 1991, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 25/04/1991 - 26/08/1991, no reference
15. 1994, London, Hayward Gallery, Salvador Dalí: the early years, 03/03/1994 - 30/05/1994, cat. no. 114
16. 2001, Tokyo, Ueno Royal Museum, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, New York : 1900-1955, 06/10/2001 - 03/02/2002, cat. no. 15
17. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 70
18. 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 01/06/2007 - 09/09/2007, il. 36

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3. Focius, "Meridians", La Publicitat, 01/01/1930, Barcelona, p. 6 (detail)
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