Homme poisson (Fish Man)
The Fish Woman
Cat. no. P 383
Homme poisson (Fish Man)
The Fish Woman
Description
- Date:
- 1930
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 26.15 x 18.5 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right corner: pour lolivette Salvador Dali 1930
- Location:
- Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Provenance
- Galerie Pierre Colle, Paris
- Sir Michael Sadler, United Kingdom
- Private collection, Basel
- Auctioned at Phillips, Son & Neale, London, April 4th 1990
- Private collection, Paris
- Private collection, Basel
- Daniel Filipacchi, New York
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, November 2nd, 2010
- Schlumberger collection
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, November 4th, 2014
Exhibitions
- 1931, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Newer super-realism, Novembre 1931, cat. no. 10
- 1934, London, Zwemmer Gallery, Salvador Dali. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings & Etchings, 24/10/1934 - 10/11/1934, cat. no. 5
- 1936, Leicester, City of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Contemporary Art, 01/05/1936 - 20/06/1936, cat. no. 136
- 1999, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, 04/06/1999 - 12/09/1999, cat. no. 39
- 2018, Dallas, Meadows Museum, SMU, Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936, 09/09/2018 - 09/12/2018, cat. no. 2
Bibliography
- "There's Method in the Madness of French Super-Realists Whose Odd Works Are Now on View Here", The Hartford Courant, 22/11/1931, Hartford, n. p.
- Impressionist and modern paintings, drawings, watercolours and sculpture, Phillips, London, 1990, p. 53
- Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 93
- Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 42 (indirect image)
- Masterpieces of surrealism, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 52 (indirect image)
- Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, cover (detail), p. 97, p. 148
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