The Dream of Venus

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007

Cat. no. P 484

The Dream of Venus

Description

Date:
c. 1939
Technique:
Oil on canvas on 4 Masonite ® boards
Dimensions:
240 x 480 cm
Total measures. Each boards measures 240 x 120 cm
Signature:
Unsigned and undated
Location:
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima

Provenance

  1. Magidson & Associates, New York
  2. Fashion Concepts, New York
  3. Private collection

Exhibitions

  1. 1982, Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 28/02/1982 - 06/04/1982, cat. no. 13
  2. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 214
  3. 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 57
  4. 1993, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Surrealism : revolution by night, 12/03/1993 - 02/05/1993, cat. no. 48
  5. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 191
  6. 2006, Ehime, The Museum of Art, Dali's universe and masterpieces of surreallists, 10/02/2006 - 26/03/2006, cat. no. 8
  7. 2007, Osaka, Suntory Museum, Dalí multifaceted : centenary exhibition, 08/03/2007 - 06/05/2007, cat. no. 22

Bibliography

  1. Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, Edition Art Life, [S.l.], 1982, cat. no. 13
  2. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 275
  3. Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 108
  4. Alessandr Rogin, [Salvador Dalí : el mite i la realitat], Republica, Moscou, 1992, p. 105
  5. Surrealism : revolution by night, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1993, p. 184-185
  6. Meredith Etherington-Smith, The Persistence of memory : a biography of Dalí, Random House, New York, 1993, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
  7. A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 123 (detail)
  8. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 327
  9. Ingrid Schaffner, Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus : the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2002, p. 148-149 (indirect image) (detail), p. 151 (indirect image) (detail)
  10. Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2003, n. p.
  11. Any Dalí 2004, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2004, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
  12. Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 314-315
  13. Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 89 (indirect image), p. 133 (indirect image)
  14. Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 219 (detail) (indirect image)
  15. Max Ernst invisible a primera vista : grabados, libros ilustrados, esculturas = Max Ernst invisible a primera vista : gravats, llibres il·lustrats, escultures, Fundació "La Caixa", Barcelona, 2005, p. 163 (indirect image) (detail)
  16. It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, p. 218-219, p. 203, 204, 205 (indirect image)
  17. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Marc Aufraise, Dalí versus Schaal, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista (DAS), [Figueres], 2006, p. 62, p. 63 (indirect images) (details)
  18. Dali's universe and masterpieces of surrealists, The Museum of Art, Ehime (Japó), [2006], p. 14 (indirect image), p. 33, p. 34 (detail), p. 35 (detail)
  19. Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, London, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2007, p. 133 (indirect image) (detail)
  20. Dalí multifaceted : centenary exhibition, The Chunichi Shimbun, [S. l.], 2007, p. 66-67
  21. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 45 (indirect image) (detail)
  22. Dreamlands : des parcs d'attractions aux cités du futur, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2010, p. 68 (indirect image) (detail)
  23. Le Surrealisme c'est moi!, Kunsthalle, Wien, 2011, p. 32, p. 33 (indirect image) (detail), p. 34, p. 35, p. 36
  24. Disney & Dalí : architects of the imagination, Disney, Los Angeles, New York, 2015, p. 82 (indirect image) (detail)
  25. Media - Dalí, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai Culture Publishing House, Shanghai, 2015, p. 244 (indirect image) (detail)
  26. Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, p. 42 (indirect image) (detail), p. 151 (detail)

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