Bureaucrate moyen atmosphérocéphale, dans l'attitude de traire du lait d'une harpe crânienne (Average Atmopherocephalic Bureaucrat in the Act of Milking a Cranial Harp)

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007 Photo © Hans Kaczmarek Dec. 86 USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2007

Cat. no. P 324

Bureaucrate moyen atmosphérocéphale, dans l'attitude de traire du lait d'une harpe crânienne (Average Atmopherocephalic Bureaucrat in the Act of Milking a Cranial Harp)

Description

Date:
c. 1933
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22.2 x 16.5 cm
Signature:
Unsigned and undated
Location:
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)

Provenance

  1. Countess Cuevas de Vera
  2. E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)

Exhibitions

  1. 1933, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Salvador Dalí, 21/11/1933 - 08/12/1933, cat. no. 6
  2. 1933, Paris, Pierre Colle, Exposition Salvador Dali, 19/06/1933 - 29/06/1933, cat. no. 3
  3. 1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, 01/06/1936 - 31/07/1936, cat. no. 16
  4. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 18
  5. 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. 18
  6. 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
  7. 1946, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Four Spaniards : Dali, Gris, Miro, Picasso, 24/01/1946 - 03/03/1946, cat. no. 3
  8. 1947, Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí, an exhibition, 08/10/1947 - 09/11/1947, cat. no. 5
  9. 1953, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Fiesta Exhibition Picasso, Gris, Miro, Dali, 14/08/1953 - 30/08/1953, cat. no. 57
  10. 1960, New York, The Finch College Art Gallery and Museum, Paintings, drawings and watercolors of Salvador Dali, 23/05/1960 - 18/06/1960, cat. no. 4
  11. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 56
  12. 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Masterpieces of surrealism, 26/01/2000 - 16/04/2000, cat. no. 36
  13. 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, James Rosenquist: paintings, 29/04/2000 - 10/09/2000, cat. no. 26
  14. 2005, New Mexico, The Alburquerque Museum, Picasso to Plensa : a century of art from Spain = De Picasso a Plensa : un siglo de arte de España, 18/12/2005 - 23/04/2006, p. 163
  15. 2007, St. Petersburg, Fl., Salvador Dalí Museum, Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, 02/02/2007 - 24/06/2007, cat. no. 42
  16. 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 153
  17. 2013, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Dalí. Todas las sugestiones poéticas y todas las posibilidades plásticas, 27/04/2013 - 02/09/2013, p. 153

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