Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí

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Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone

Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007 © 2006. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence

Cat. no. P 463

Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone

Description

Date:
1938
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
54.5 x 65.1 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated upper left: Gala Salvador Dali 1938
Location:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. James Thrall Soby Bequest, 1979

Provenance

  1. James Thrall Soby, Farmington (Connecticut)

Exhibitions

  1. 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21/03/1939 - 18/04/1939, cat. no. 1
  2. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 39
  3. 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. 39
  4. 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
  5. 1946, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Four Spaniards : Dali, Gris, Miro, Picasso, 24/01/1946 - 03/03/1946, cat. no. 11
  6. 1953, New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Contemporary Spanish Paintings, 20/01/1953 - 07/02/1953, cat. no. 1
  7. 1958, Southampton, Long Island, New York, The Parrish Art Museum, Dalí : second collection of jewels, Sacre Coeur de Jesus, paintings-sketches, 01/08/1958 - 21/08/1958, cat. no. 26
  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. 8
  9. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 91
  10. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 68
  11. 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14/05/1980 - 29/06/1980, cat. no. 162
  12. 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 183
  13. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 210
  14. 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 54
  15. 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21/10/1998 - 31/01/1999, cat. no. 35
  16. 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 05/02/2004 - 23/05/2004, cat. no. 9
  17. 2010, Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí: The late work, 07/07/2010 - 09/02/2011, cat. no. 6

Bibliography

  1. James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 66
  2. W. H. Cunningham, [He may not be the best but he is...], News, 28/02/1942, Cleveland, O., n. p. (detail)
  3. "Art in the Modern Sublime State", Star, 22/03/1942, Washington, D. C., n. p.
  4. Lucille E. Morehouse, [For several years the special exhibitions...], Star, 05/04/1942, Indianapilis, Ind., n. p. (detail)
  5. Juan Cortés, "Salvador Dalí", Liceo, 31/12/1945, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
  6. Robert Goldwater, "Symbolism in painting", Art News, 30/09/1947, New York, n. p.
  7. Manuel del Arco, Salvador Dalí, Dalí al desnudo, José Janés, Barcelona, 1952, p. 65 (detail)
  8. "Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting telephone (by Dali) (il)", Forbes, 01/01/1954, New York, n. p.
  9. Dalí, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1957, p. 7 (detail)
  10. The James Thrall Soby collection of works of art pledged or given to the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, p. 41
  11. Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 162 (detail)
  12. Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 68
  13. Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 143
  14. A. Reynolds Morse, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí : a preliminary study in their similarities and contrast, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland [Ohio], 1973, p. 9
  15. Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 309
  16. Hommage à Dalí, Vilo, Paris, 1980, p. 134
  17. Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 79
  18. 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 143
  19. Manuel del Arco, Salvador Dalí, Dalí in the nude, The Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg [Florida], 1984, p. 75 (detail)
  20. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 269, p. 268 (indirect image)
  21. Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 104
  22. A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 140
  23. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 305
  24. Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 63
  25. Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 104
  26. Memòria dels somnis: Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Govern d'Andorra. Ministeri de Turisme i Cultura, [Andorra de la Vella], 1999, p. 25 (indirect image)
  27. Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 102-103
  28. Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 56
  29. Garaje : imágenes del automóvil en la pintura española del siglo XX, Fundación Eduardo Barreiros, [Madrid], 2000, p. 47
  30. Memoria de los sueños : Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, MUVIM (Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i la Modernitat), Valencia, 2001, p. 35 (indirect image)
  31. Laia Rosa Armengol, Dalí, icono y personaje, Cátedra, Madrid, 2003, p. 162
  32. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 206
  33. Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 199
  34. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 206
  35. Joan M. Minguet i Batllori, Salvador Dalí, cine y surrealismo(s), Parsifal, Barcelona, 2003, p. 149 (detail)
  36. Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona, Figueres, 2004, p. 59
  37. Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 497 (indirect image)
  38. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Dallibres, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2005, p. 30-31 (indirect image)
  39. It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, p. 98
  40. Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 63
  41. Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : the reality of dreams, Prestel, Munich, London, New York, 2011, p. 63
  42. William Jeffett, Juan José Lahuerta, Picasso-Dalí, Dalí-Picasso, Museu Picasso, Salvador Dalí Museum, Barcelona, Sant Petersburg, 2014, p. 97

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