The enigma of Hitler
Cat. no. P 475
The enigma of Hitler
Description
- Date:
- 1939
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 95 x 141 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower center: Gala Salvador Dali 1939
- Location:
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Dalí bequest
Provenance
- Artist's collection
Exhibitions
- 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21/03/1939 - 18/04/1939, cat. no. 3
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 85
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14/05/1980 - 29/06/1980, cat. no. 160
- 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 162
- 1984, Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, I Dalì di Salvador Dalì, 01/07/1984 - 30/09/1984, cat. no. 19
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 40
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 56
- 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21/10/1998 - 31/01/1999, cat. no. 38
- 1999, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 05/03/1999 - 24/05/1999, cat. no. 38
- 1999, Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, 20/12/1999 - 28/02/2000, cat. no. 183
- 2002, North Miami, Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, 14/03/2002 - 30/06/2002, cat. no. 183
- 2002, París, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 06/03/2002 - 24/06/2002, no reference
- 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 05/02/2004 - 23/05/2004, cat. no. 13
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 186
- 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 241
- 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. 241
Bibliography
- Louis Cheronnet, "Salvador Dali", Marianne, 15/02/1939, Paris, p. 11
- "New Yorkers Stand in Line To See His Six-in-One Surrealist Painting", Life, 17/04/1939, New York, p. 44
- Winthrop Sargeant, "Dali", Life, 24/09/1945, [chicago], p. 65
- A. Oriol Anguera, Mentira y verdad de Salvador Dalí, Cobalto, Barcelona, 1948, p. XXXIII
- "Admits his previous work omitted spiritual beliefs", Globe Eve., 25/11/1949, Boston, Mass., n. p. (detail)
- Saraiva Mendes, "O primeiro Museu da Peninsula a possuir um quadro de Salvador Dali e um Museu portugues-o do Caramulo", A Flama, 21/10/1955, [lisboa], n. p. (detail)
- Loretta Mclaughlin, "Baby's dreams help its growth", Herald, 08/05/1966, Boston, Mass., n. p. (detail)
- "He's A Shocking Artist", Beacon Journal, 07/05/1967, Akron, Ohio, n. p. (detail)
- "Voice of Broadway", Sentinel, 27/09/1967, Pomeroy, Ohio, p. 151
- Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 241 (detail)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Eleanor R. Morse, The Dalí adventure : 1943-1973, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, [1973], il. 4
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 166 (detail)
- Poetic homage to Gala-Salvador Dalí, The Reynolds Morse Foundation, Cleveland, 1973, p. 55
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- Salvador Dalí, The Tragic myth of Millet's Angelus, The Salvador Dali Museum, St Petersburg, 1986, p. 196
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- Guillermo Carnero, Las Armas abisinias, Anthropos, Barcelona, 1989, il. XXX
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- Alyse Gaultier, L'Abcdaire de Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 66-67 (detail)
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- Disney & Dalí : architects of the imagination, Disney, Los Angeles, New York, 2015, p. 58 (indirect image)
- Gabriel Montua, Dalís 20. Jahrhundert : die westliche Kunst zwischen Politik, Markt und Medien, De Gruyter, Boston, Berlin, 2015, p. 140
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 46
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