Description

Date:

c. 1937

Technique:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

51.4 x 78.1 cm

Signature:

Unsigned and undated

Location:

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Illinois). Joseph Winterbotham Collection

Provenance

1. Mr. and Mrs. James Thrall Soby collection, Farmington (Connecticut)
2. Durlacher Brothers Gallery, New York

Exhibitions

1. 1937, Paris, Renou & Colle, Dali, 06/07/1937 - 30/07/1937, no reference
2. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 33
3. 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. 33
4. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 86
5. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 56
6. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 196
7. 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 31
8. 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 39
9. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 169

Bibliography

1. James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 62
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3. "Conversation stopper", News, 14/10/1949, Dallas, Tex., n. p. (detail)
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46. Jordana Mendelson, Documenting Spain : artists, exhibition culture and the modern nation, 1929-1939, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., 2005, p. 215
47. Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 7 (detail), p. 46
48. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Marc Aufraise, Dalí versus Schaal, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista (DAS), [Figueres], 2006, p. 36
49. William Jeffett, Juan José Lahuerta, Picasso-Dalí, Dalí-Picasso, Museu Picasso, Salvador Dalí Museum, Barcelona, Sant Petersburg, 2014, p. 226 (indirect image)

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