The Shades of Night Descending

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007 Photo © Hans Kaczmarek USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2007

Cat. no. P 271

The Shades of Night Descending

Description

Date:
1931
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
61 x 50 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower left: Gala Salvador Dali 1931
Location:
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)

Provenance

  1. Joseph Winterbotham
  2. The Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, Chicago (Illinois)
  3. Durlacher Brothers Gallery, New York
  4. E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)

Exhibitions

  1. 1933, Chicago, World's Fair Exhibition, Chicago World's Fair Exhibition, 1933, cat. no. 772
  2. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 11
  3. 1947, Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí, an exhibition, 08/10/1947 - 09/11/1947, cat. no. 4
  4. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 37
  5. 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Dali Monumental, 25/03/1998 - 27/05/1998, il. 21
  6. 1999, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Dali exhibition 1999, 28/08/1999 - 24/10/1999, cat. no. 19
  7. 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Masterpieces of surrealism, 26/01/2000 - 16/04/2000, cat. no. 31
  8. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 92
  9. 2006, Tokio, Ueno Royal Museum, Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, 23/09/2006 - 04/01/2007, cat. no. 17
  10. 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 01/06/2007 - 09/09/2007, il. 58

Bibliography

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  2. Reynolds A. Morse, "The Dream World of Salvador Dali", Art In America, 31/07/1945, New York, N.y., il. 2
  3. Reginald Brill, Modern painting and its roots in European tradition, Avalon Press and Central Institute of Art and Design, London, 1946, plate 26
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  9. Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 24
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