Description

Date:

1934

Technique:

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions:

15.57 x 22.07 cm

Signature:

Signed and dated lower right corner: Gala Salvador Dali 1934

Location:

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund

Provenance

1. Julien Levy Gallery, New York

Observations

Exhibitions

1. 1934, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Dali, 21/11/1934 - 10/12/1934, cat. no. 15
2. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 25
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. 25
4. 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
5. 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/1956 - 10/09/1956, cat. no. 25
6. 1958, Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, A. Everett Austin, Jr. A director's taste and achievement, 23/02/1958 - 30/03/1958, cat. no. 19
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. 17
8. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 63
9. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 37
10. 1973, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 06/10/1973 - 02/12/1973, cat. no. 16
11. 1974, Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, 14/03/1974 - 05/05/1974, cat. no. 10
12. 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14/05/1980 - 29/06/1980, cat. no. 99
13. 2000, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's optical illusions, 21/01/2000 - 26/03/2000, cat. no. 15
14. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 138

Bibliography

1. Salvador Dalí, La Conquête de l'irrationnel, Éditions Surréalistes, Paris, 1935, il. 23
2. James Thrall Soby, After Picasso, Dodd, Mead, New York, 1935, il. 59
3. James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 55
4. Catalog of works by Salvador Dalí in public museum collections, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland [Ohio], 1956, p. 21
5. Dalí, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1957, p. 6 (detail)
6. A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 35
7. Dalí : second collection of jewels, Sacre Coeur de Jesus, paintings-sketches, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, New York, 1958, p. 16
8. A. Everett Austin, Jr. : a director's taste and achievement, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1958, p. 37
9. M.d. C., "Salvador Dali ou les hallucinations d' un méditerranéen", Réalités, 30/06/1961, Paris, p. 70
10. Florence Berkman, "Atheneum Painting Proves Ability", Times, 07/07/1962, Hartford, Conn., n. p. (detail)
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12. Chagall, Dalí, Ernst, Kawade Shobo, [S.l.], 1966, Il. 35
13. Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 32 (detail)
14. Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí peintures, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1969, p. 9
15. Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 37
16. "Missing painting recovered", Telegram, 24/04/1970, Bridgeport, Conn., n. p.
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21. Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974, il. 38
22. Dali, Ballantine Books, New York, 1974, n. p., n. p. (detail)
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25. Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 99
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30. Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 167
31. Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 74
32. Salvador Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 1999, n. p.
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34. Masterpieces of surrealism, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 64
35. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 151
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37. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 151
38. Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 264
39. Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 231
40. Patrice Schmitt, Étude psychanalytique de la création chez Salvador Dalí, Lacour-Ollé, Nimes, 2004, il. 1.6
41. Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 231
42. Mary Ann Caws, Salvador Dalí, Reaktion Books, London, 2008, p. 115
43. Roger Rothman, Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small, University of Nebraska, Lincoln & London, 2012, p. 137
44. Joseph Cornell et les surréalistes à New York, Hazan, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Malakoff, Lyon, 2013, p. 155
45. El Arte y el mundo moderno, Planeta, Barcelona, [s.d.], p. 29

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