Detrás de la ventana, a mano izquierda, de donde sale una cuchara, Velázquez agoniza (Velázquez Dying behind the Window on the Left Side out of Which a Spoon Projects)
After “The Jester Don Sebastián de Morra” by Velázquez in the Courtyard of El Escorial
Cat. no. P 1024
Detrás de la ventana, a mano izquierda, de donde sale una cuchara, Velázquez agoniza (Velázquez Dying behind the Window on the Left Side out of Which a Spoon Projects)
After “The Jester Don Sebastián de Morra” by Velázquez in the Courtyard of El Escorial
Description
- Date:
- 1982
- Technique:
- Oil and collage on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 75 x 59.5 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower center: G Dalí 82
- Location:
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres. Dalí bequest
Provenance
- Artist's collection
Observations
Although recent studies identify the jester in the portrait by Velázquez as El Primo, we have retained the name Sebastián de Morra, as this was the title by which the work known at the time of its execution.
Exhibitions
- 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15/04/1983 - 29/05/1983, cat. no. 451
- 1984, Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, I Dalì di Salvador Dalì, 01/07/1984 - 30/09/1984, cat. no. 66
- 1984, [Aalborg], Husets Galleri, Salvador Dalí, Pitxot, Evarist Vallès, 25/05/1984 - 28/06/1984, cat. no. 9
- 1993, Sevilla, Fundación Fondo de Cultura de Sevilla, Dalí en los fondos de la Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1993 - 04/07/1993, no reference
- 1995, Salamanca, Sala de Exposiciones de "San Eloy", El Siglo de Dalí, 30/10/1995 - 31/12/1995, cat. no. 28
- 1996, Santiago de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, El Genio de Salvador Dalí, 04/11/1996 - 15/01/1997, cat. no. 24
- 2000, Pekín, Galería Nacional de Bellas Artes, Salvador Dalí, 09/06/2000 - 27/06/2000, cat. no. 18
- 2003, A Coruña, Sala de exposiciones Fundación Caixa Galicia, Os dalís de Dalí, 03/04/2003 - 04/05/2003, cat. no. 44
- 2006, Tokio, Ueno Royal Museum, Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, 23/09/2006 - 04/01/2007, cat. no. 58
- 2008, Istanbul, Sabanci University. Sakip Sabanci Museum, Salvador Dalí. A surrealist in Istanbul, 20/09/2008 - 20/01/2009, cat. no. 27
- 2010, Milano, Palazzo Reale, Salvador Dalí, il sogno si avvicina, 22/09/2010 - 30/01/2011, no reference
- 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 311
Bibliography
- 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 249
- I Dalì di Salvador Dalì, Gianni Tassinari, Ferrara, 1984, p. 212
- Salvador Dalí, Pitxot, Evarist Vallès, Husets Galleri, [Aalborg], 1984, title page
- Salvador Dalí, Pitxot, Evarist Vallés, Husets Galleri, Aalborg, 1984, n. p.
- Dalí en los fondos de la Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundación Fondo de Cultura, Sevilla, 1993, p. 113
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 697
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 263
- El Siglo de Dalí, Caja Salamanca y Soria, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Salamanca, [Figueres], 1995, p. 102-103
- El Genio de Salvador Dalí, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, 1996, p. 58
- Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 170
- Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Agencia de Exposiciones Internacionales de China, [Figueres], [Pekín], 2000, p. 28
- Os dalís de Dalí, Fundación Caixa Galicia, [A Coruña], 2003, p. 107
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 408
- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 207
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 408
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, El Camino de Dalí, Siruela, Madrid, 2004, p. 290
- Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 346
- Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, Ueno Royal Museum, Ueno, 2006, p. 171, p. 170 (detail)
- Federico Fernández Díez, Goya y Dalí : del capricho al disparate, Diaz de Santos, Madrid, 2006, p. 25
- Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, London, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2007, p. 346
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 121
- Salvador Dalí : il sogno si avvicina, 24 Ore Cultura, Milano, 2010, p. 75
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, París, 2011, p. 231
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 311
- Antoni Pitxot, "Diario", Arte y Parte, 01/04/2013, Santander, p. 100
- William Jeffett, Juan José Lahuerta, Picasso-Dalí, Dalí-Picasso, Museu Picasso, Salvador Dalí Museum, Barcelona, Sant Petersburg, 2014, p. 199
- Memoria 2014 = Memòria 2014, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 41
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