The Shades of Night Descending
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
- Joseph Winterbotham
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, Chicago (Illinois)
- Durlacher Brothers Gallery, New York
- E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)
Exhibitions
- 1933, Chicago, World's Fair Exhibition, Chicago World's Fair Exhibition, 1933, cat. no. 772
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 11
- 1947, Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí, an exhibition, 08/10/1947 - 09/11/1947, cat. no. 4
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 37
- 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Dali Monumental, 25/03/1998 - 27/05/1998, il. 21
- 1999, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Dali exhibition 1999, 28/08/1999 - 24/10/1999, cat. no. 19
- 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Masterpieces of surrealism, 26/01/2000 - 16/04/2000, cat. no. 31
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 92
- 2006, Tokio, Ueno Royal Museum, Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, 23/09/2006 - 04/01/2007, cat. no. 17
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 01/06/2007 - 09/09/2007, il. 58
Bibliography
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 42
- Reynolds A. Morse, "The Dream World of Salvador Dali", Art In America, 31/07/1945, New York, N.y., il. 2
- Reginald Brill, Modern painting and its roots in European tradition, Avalon Press and Central Institute of Art and Design, London, 1946, plate 26
- C. Rodríguez-aguilera, "Salvador Dalí en Port-Lligat", Revista, 27/08/1953, Barcelona, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, The IMS Press, Cleveland [Ohio], 1954, p. 43
- Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera, Antología española de arte contemporáneo, Barna, Barcelona, 1955, p. 56
- A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 28
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 44
- Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 24
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 152
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 55, p. 152
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 83
- Salvador Dalí, René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Filipacchi, Paris, 1978, p. 101
- Salvador Dalí, selected works, Filipacchi, New York, 1979, p. 101
- Gaëtan Picon, Diario del surrealismo, Skira, Destino, Genève, [Barcelona], 1981, p. 139
- Dalí : Salvador Dali Museum, Salvador Dali Foundation, St. Petersburg, Florida, [1982], n. p.
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 44
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 20
- Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 9
- Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 9
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Dalí (il.), Il Fantastico idalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia, Del Drago, Milano, 1986, p. 27
- Richard Martin, Fashion and surrealism, Rizzoli, New York, 1987, p. 55
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 72
- Dalí: the Salvador Dalí museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston. Toronto. London, 1991, il. 39
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 168
- Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 34
- Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 34
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 113
- David Carter, Salvador Dalí, Chelsea House, New York - Philadelphia, 1995, p. 68
- Kenneth Wach, Salvador Dalí : masterpieces from the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Harry N. Abrams, Salvador Dalí Museum, New York, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1996, p. 65
- Haim Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, p. 156
- Dalí monumental, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, 1998, p. 33
- Dali exhibition 1999, NTV Europe B.V., [S.l.], 1999, p. 79
- Masterpieces of surrealism, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 143
- Robert S. Lubar, The Salvador Dalí Museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston - New York - London, 2000, p. 64
- Dalí : Gradiva, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, 2002, p. 42
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 104
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 104
- Michael Elsohn Ross, Salvador Dalí and the surrealists, their lives and ideas : 21 activities, Chicago Review Press, Chicago, 2003, p. 108 (detail), p. 123
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, cover (detail), p. 67
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí the impresario of surrealism, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, p. 67
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 157
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, París, 2004, p. 67
- Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, Ueno Royal Museum, Ueno, 2006, p. 65, p. 64 (detail)
- Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 15
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 100
- Salvador Dalí, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, 2014, p. 61
- Disney & Dalí : architects of the imagination, Disney, Los Angeles, New York, 2015, p. 37
- Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, n. p. (detail), p. 95
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