Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí

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Suburbs of the "paranoiac-critical town"

Suburbs of the "paranoiac-critical" afternoon (on the outskirts of European history)

Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town: Afternoon on the Outskirts of European History

Suburbs of the
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007

Cat. no. P 434

Suburbs of the "paranoiac-critical town"

Suburbs of the "paranoiac-critical" afternoon (on the outskirts of European history)

Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town: Afternoon on the Outskirts of European History

Description

Date:
1935
Technique:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
46 x 66 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower right corner: Gala Salvador Dali / 1935
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. Edward James
  2. Auctioned at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 30th, 1981

Observations

This work received different titles during 1936. The original title corresponds to the one given when it was first exhibited. The second title is given by Dalí when the painting was shown at the exhibition held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, from December 10th, 1936 to January 9th, 1937. Besides these various different titles, this painting also appears under the following names: "Panel" in Julien Levy's book "Surrealism", The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936, and as "Unfinished" in "Minotaure", number 8, 15th of June 1936.

Exhibitions

  1. 1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, 01/06/1936 - 31/07/1936, cat. no. 26
  2. 1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, 10/12/1936 - 09/01/1937, cat. no. 12
  3. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 80
  4. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 49
  5. 1971, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dali Art-in-Jewels Exhibition & Paintings, 08/06/1971 - 10/07/1971, cat. no. 6
  6. 1972, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, July - September 1972, cat. no. 8
  7. 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 226
  8. 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. 54
  9. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 151

Bibliography

  1. Julien Levy, Surrealism, The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936, p. 168
  2. Surrealism, Faber & Faber, London, 1936, il. 24 (detail)
  3. E. Tériade, "La peinture surréaliste", Minotaure, 15/06/1936, Paris, p. 11
  4. Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. 13 (detail)
  5. Tristan, "Salvador Dali visto desde Cadaques", Destino, 28/09/1946, Barcelona, p. 4 (detail)
  6. Julio Coll, "La vida secreta de Salvador Dalí", Liceo, 30/09/1947, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
  7. Herbert Read, Art now : an introduction to the theory of modern painting and sculpture, Faber and Faber, London, 1960, il. 109 (detail)
  8. Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 27 (detail)
  9. Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 49
  10. Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 122
  11. José Angelo Gaiarsa, Respiraçao e imaginaçao, Jose Angelo Gaiarsa, Sao Paulo, 1971, p. 30, p. 89 (detail), p. 93 (detail)
  12. Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1972, p. 12
  13. Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, p. 106
  14. William Gaunt, Los Surrealistas, Labor, Barcelona [etc.], 1974, p. 163
  15. Henry-François Rey, Dalí en su laberinto, Euros, Barcelona, 1975, cover (detail)
  16. Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 256
  17. Salvador Dalí, Les Vins de Gala, Draeger, Paris, 1977, p. 190-191 (detail)
  18. 100 anys de Catalunya (1877-1977), Banco Comercial de Cataluña, Barcelona, 1977, p. 91
  19. Dawn Ades, Dada and surrealism reviewed, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1978, p. 300
  20. Malcolm Haslam, The Real world of the surrealists, Gallery Press, New York, 1978, p. 152-153
  21. Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 293
  22. Salvador Dalí, Oui 2. L'archangélisme scientifique, Denoël, Gonthier, Paris, 1979, p. [42] (detail)
  23. Salvador Dalí, Sì. La rivoluzione paranoico-critica. L'arcangelismo scientifico, Rizzoli, Milano, 1980, p. 42
  24. "Dossier Dalí", Guadalimar, 31/01/1980, Madrid, n. p. (detail)
  25. Twenty-eight works from the Edward James collection, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1981, p. 50
  26. Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 70
  27. Dawn Ades, Dalí, Thames and Hudson, London, 1982, il. 32, p. 130
  28. Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 51
  29. El Surrealismo, Cátedra, Madrid, 1983, p. [138]
  30. Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1983, p. 51 (detail)
  31. Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 13
  32. José Pierre, L'Aventure surréaliste autour d'André Breton, Filipacchi, Artcurial, [París], Paris, 1986, p. 80
  33. Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 115
  34. Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 80-81
  35. Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood, Realism, rationalism, surrealism : art between the wars, Yale University Press in association with the Open University, New Haven & London, 1993, p. 221
  36. A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 151 (2 details)
  37. Nathaniel Harris, The Life and works of Dalí, Parragon, [Regne Unit], 1994, p. 40-41
  38. Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 80, p. 81
  39. Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 190-191
  40. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 267
  41. Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 85
  42. Robert Radford, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1997, p. 184
  43. Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, il. XXVII
  44. A surreal life: Edward James, 1907-1984, Royal Pavillion, Librairies & Museums, Brighton & Hove, Philip Wilson, London, 1998, p. 49
  45. Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Electa, Madrid, 1999, p. 40
  46. Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 108- 109
  47. Juan Antonio Ramírez, Dalí: lo crudo y lo podrido, A. Machado Libros, Madrid, 2002, p. 72
  48. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 178
  49. Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 80 (detail), p. 90-91
  50. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 178
  51. Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí the impresario of surrealism, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, p. 84-85
  52. Tonia Raquejo, Dalí: metamorfosis, Edilupa, [Madrid], 2004, p. 94
  53. Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 63 (detail)
  54. Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 249
  55. Patrice Schmitt, Étude psychanalytique de la création chez Salvador Dalí, Lacour-Ollé, Nimes, 2004, il. 4.1 (detail)
  56. Enric Bou, Daliccionario : objetos, mitos y símbolos de Salvador Dalí, Tusquets, Barcelona, 2004, p. 21
  57. Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, p. 84-85
  58. El País de Dalí, Consorci del Museu de l'Empordà, Figueres, 2004, p. 236
  59. Salvador Dalí, Josep Pla. Coincidències, Fundació Josep Pla, Palafrugell, 2004, p. 35 (indirect image) (detail)
  60. Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, París, 2004, p. 84-85
  61. Dalí evolució, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2006, p. 48
  62. Robin Adèle Greeley, Surrealism and the Spanish civil war, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, p. 59
  63. Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 71
  64. Dalís medienspiele: falsche fährten und paranoische selbstinszenierungen in den künsten, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2007, p. 365 (detail)
  65. Jesús Lázaro Docio, El Secreto creador de Salvador Dalí : el método paranoico-crítico, 1927-1937, Eutelequia, Madrid, 2010, il. 23
  66. Atles paisatgístic de les terres de Girona, Diputació de Girona, Girona, 2010, p. 946
  67. Roger Rothman, Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small, University of Nebraska, Lincoln & London, 2012, p. 203
  68. Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 31 (indirect image)
  69. Dalí: Il sogno del Classico, Skira, Milano, 2016, p. 20

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