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)
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
- Countess Cuevas de Vera
- E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)
Exhibitions
- 1933, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Salvador Dalí, 21/11/1933 - 08/12/1933, cat. no. 6
- 1933, Paris, Pierre Colle, Exposition Salvador Dali, 19/06/1933 - 29/06/1933, cat. no. 3
- 1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, 01/06/1936 - 31/07/1936, cat. no. 16
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 18
- 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
- 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
- 1946, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Four Spaniards : Dali, Gris, Miro, Picasso, 24/01/1946 - 03/03/1946, cat. no. 3
- 1947, Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí, an exhibition, 08/10/1947 - 09/11/1947, cat. no. 5
- 1953, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Fiesta Exhibition Picasso, Gris, Miro, Dali, 14/08/1953 - 30/08/1953, cat. no. 57
- 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
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 56
- 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Masterpieces of surrealism, 26/01/2000 - 16/04/2000, cat. no. 36
- 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, James Rosenquist: paintings, 29/04/2000 - 10/09/2000, cat. no. 26
- 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
- 2007, St. Petersburg, Fl., Salvador Dalí Museum, Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, 02/02/2007 - 24/06/2007, cat. no. 42
- 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 153
- 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
Bibliography
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- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 49
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