Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí

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Gradiva retrouve les ruines anthropomorphes (fantaisie rétrospective) (Gradiva Rediscovers the Anthropomorphic Ruins (Retrospective Fantasy))

Gradiva Rediscovers the Anthropomorphic Ruins (Retrospective Fantasy)
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007

Cat. no. P 281

Gradiva retrouve les ruines anthropomorphes (fantaisie rétrospective) (Gradiva Rediscovers the Anthropomorphic Ruins (Retrospective Fantasy))

Description

Date:
c. 1931-32
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
65 x 54 cm
Signature:
Unsigned and undated
Location:
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Provenance

  1. André Breton, Paris
  2. Robert de Saint-Jean
  3. Galerie Agora-Daniel Malingue, Paris
  4. Galleria Internazionale, Milano
  5. Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, Lugano

Observations

This painting has traditionally been dated 1931, but if it was in fact painted in 1931, it is strange that Dalí did not show it at his second one-man show at the Galerie Pierre Colle in Paris in 1932. As there are no grounds for dating this work to 1932, we have accepted the two-year interval as valid (See C. Green, The European Avant-gardes: Art in France and Western Europe 1904-c.1945. London: Zwemmer, 1995). The painting was shown under the title Gradiva retrouve les ruines antropomorphes (fantaisie rétrospective) in the Exposition Salvador Dalí at the Galerie Pierre Colle in Paris in 1933.

Exhibitions

  1. 1933, Paris, Pierre Colle, Exposition Salvador Dali, 19/06/1933 - 29/06/1933, cat. no. 11
  2. 1971, Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, 29/01/1971 - 28/03/1971, cat. no. 40
  3. 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14/05/1980 - 29/06/1980, cat. no. 66
  4. 1982, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, 20th Century Masters: the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, 30/05/1982 - 08/09/1982, cat. no. 41
  5. 1986, Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina, Mestres moderns de la col·lecció Thyssen-Bornemisza, 07/05/1986 - 17/08/1986, cat. no. 92
  6. 1987, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, El Siglo de Picasso, 29/01/1987 - 13/03/1988, cat. no. 59
  7. 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 18
  8. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 78
  9. 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 18
  10. 1995, Milano, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Dalí, Miró, Picasso e il surrealismo spagnolo, 29/07/1995 - 22/10/1995, p. 91
  11. 1996, Barcelona, La Pedrera, Dalí. Arquitectura, 19/06/1996 - 25/08/1996, cat. no. 4
  12. 1997, Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación "la Caixa", Madrid - Barcelona 1930-1936. La tradición de lo nuevo, 29/05/1997 - 20/07/1997, p. 176
  13. 1997, Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Années 30 en Europe : le temps menaçant, 1929-1930, 20/02/1997 - 25/05/1997, p. 114
  14. 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21/10/1998 - 31/01/1999, cat. no. 12
  15. 2002, Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dalí : Gradiva, 21/05/2002 - 08/09/2002, cat. no. 10
  16. 2003, Milano, Skira, Modernismo e avanguardia : Picasso, Miró, Dalí e la pittura catalana, 15/02/2003 - 04/05/2003, cat. no. 74
  17. 2006, Köln, Museum Ludwig, Salvador Dalí : La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier, 18/03/2006 - 25/06/2006, cat. no. 29
  18. 2007, Figueres, Teatre-Museu Dalí, Préstec temporal a la Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, 29/01/2007 - 24/05/2007
  19. 2011, Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Surrealism in Paris, 02/10/2011 - 29/01/2012, p. 179

Bibliography

  1. Tableaux modernes, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 1969, n. p.
  2. Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 121
  3. Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 167
  4. Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 66
  5. Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 31
  6. 20th century masters: the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, United Technologies Corporation, [S.l.], 1982, p. 50
  7. Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 43
  8. Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 11, p. 86
  9. Mestres moderns de la col·lecció Thyssen-Bornemisza, Col.lecció Thyssen-Bornemisza, Electa, Lugano, Milà, 1986, p. 114
  10. Cinq siècles d'art espagnol | Le Siècle de Picasso, Ministerio de Cultura, Paris-Musées, [Madrid], Paris, 1987, p. 119
  11. El Siglo de Picasso, Ministerio de Cultura, Paris-Musées, [Madrid], Paris, 1988, p. 113
  12. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 99
  13. Salvador Dalí, fusioni veronesi, Arsenale, [Verona], 1989, p. 24 (detail)
  14. Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 53
  15. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 172
  16. Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 29
  17. Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 29
  18. Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 114
  19. Dalí, Miró, Picasso e il surrealismo spagnolo, Skira, Milano, 1995, p. 91
  20. Christopher Green, The European avant-gardes : art in France and Western Europe 1904-c.1945, Zwemmer, London, 1995, p. 103
  21. Dalí. Arquitectura, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, [Figueres], [Barcelona], 1996, p. 39
  22. Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 65
  23. Années 30 en Europe : le temps menaçant, 1929-1930, Paris Musées, Flammarion, Paris, 1997, p. 114
  24. Madrid - Barcelona 1930-1936. La tradició d'alló que és nou, Fundació "La Caixa", Barcelona, 1997, p. 177
  25. Galerie Daniel Malingue 35th anniversary : a review, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris, 1997, p. 128
  26. Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 63
  27. Christopher Green, Art in France : 1900- 1940, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 277
  28. Surrealism desire unbound, Tate Publishing, London, 2001, p. 64
  29. Grandes maestros de la pintura : Dalí, Altaya, Barcelona, 2001, p. 12
  30. Dalí : Gradiva, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, 2002, cover, p. 71
  31. Juan Antonio Ramírez, Dalí: lo crudo y lo podrido, A. Machado Libros, Madrid, 2002, p. 78 (detail)
  32. 1992/2002 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2002, p. 46 (detail)
  33. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 100
  34. Modernismo e avanguardia : Picasso, Miró, Dalí e la pittura catalana, Skira, Milano, 2003, p. 225
  35. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 100
  36. Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 109 (detail)
  37. Dalí : afinitats electives, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura, Barcelona, 2004, p. 284
  38. Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 5 (detail), p. 14
  39. Salvador Dalí : La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2006, p. 116
  40. Dalís medienspiele: falsche fährten und paranoische selbstinszenierungen in den künsten, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2007, p. 188
  41. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 31
  42. La Sombra, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, 2009, p. 190
  43. Surrealism in Paris, Hatje Kantz, Basilea, 2011, p. 179
  44. Dalí un artista un genio, Skira, Milano, 2012, p. 102, p. 105 (detail)
  45. José Jiménez, Dawn Ades, Georges Sebbag, El Surrealismo y el sueño, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2013, p. 238
  46. "SALVADOR DALÍ", ARTE Y PARTE, 01/04/2013, s. l., p. 12
  47. Begoña Souviron López, Dalí en el contexto cultural centroeuropeo : literatura e iconografia, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, 2014, p. 125 (detail)
  48. Dalí Pitxot : une amitié au cœur du surréalisme, Marot, Musée de Beaux -Arts, [S.l.], Tournai, 2017, p. 110

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