Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí

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Shirley Temple, the Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time

Barcelona sphinx

Shirley Temple, the Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007

Cat. no. P 509

Shirley Temple, the Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time

Barcelona sphinx

Description

Date:
1939
Technique:
Gouache, pastel and collage on cardboard
Dimensions:
75 x 100 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower right: Gala Salvador Dali 1939
Location:
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Provenance

  1. Galerie André-François Petit, Paris
  2. Joseph Foret, París
  3. Claude Rivière, París
  4. Mrs. J. Krebs, Brussels

Observations

According to the "New York Times" dated March 26, 1939, this painting was shown at the exhibition held at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York, from March 21st to April 18th 1939. The exhibition catalogue does not mention the painting, but the New York Times article indicates that this work was included as part of the show.

Exhibitions

  1. 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21/03/1939 - 18/04/1939, not included in catalogue
  2. 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 89
  3. 1965, Paris, Galerie François Petit, [Catàleg exposició col·lectiva], December 18, 1965, no reference
  4. 1968, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Hedendaagse Spaanse Kunst : van Picasso tot Genovés, 05/07/1968 - 25/08/1968, cat. no. 28
  5. 1968, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dali : peintures, aquarelles, dessins, estampes, etc, 01/03/1968 - 31/03/1968, cat. no. 14
  6. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 126
  7. 1971, Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, 29/01/1971 - 28/03/1971, cat. no. 104
  8. 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 185
  9. 1985, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux Arts, Picasso, Miró, Dalí : évocations d'Espagne, 26/09/1985 - 22/12/1985, cat. no. 30
  10. 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 05/02/2004 - 23/05/2004, cat. no. 124

Bibliography

  1. "Une oeuvre étonnante du Maître de l'étonnant", Journal Des Amat. D' Art, 25/04/1958, Paris, p. 8
  2. Marcel Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1959, p. 261
  3. 100 aquarelles pour la Divine Comédie de Dante Alighieri par Salvador Dalí, Joseph Foret, Les Heures Claires, Paris, 1960, p. 66
  4. Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1964, p. 70
  5. [Catàleg exposició col·lectiva], Galerie François Petit, Paris, [1965], n. p.
  6. Robert Lebel, L'Arte moderna : metafisica, dada, surrealismo, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano, 1967, p. 263
  7. Robert Lebel, "Il surrealismo: Tanguy, Dalí, Brauner, Dominguez e altri", L'arte Moderna, 31/12/1967, Milano, p. 263
  8. Hedendaagse Spaanse Kunst : van Picasso tot Genovés, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1968, p. 28
  9. "The scandalous epech of surrealist painting now brought to life in a beautiful art book", New York Times, 07/01/1968, New York, n. p. (detail)
  10. Robert Rousseau, "Qui est Salvador Dalí?", Beaux Arts, 24/02/1968, París, n. p.
  11. Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 126
  12. Y. G., "In de rij voor Salvador Dali", De Waarheid, 31/12/1970, s. l., p. 4
  13. Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 231
  14. Gale Wiley, "Dallying with Dali", European Stars and Stripes, 11/03/1971, Kaiserslautern, p. 15 (detail)
  15. Salvador Dalí : a guide to his works in public museums, The Dali Museum, Cleveland [Ohio], 1973, p. [44]
  16. Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974, il. 41 (detail)
  17. Whitney Chadwick, "Eros and Thanatos, the Surrealist cult of love reexamined", Art Forum, 30/11/1975, New York, NY, p. 54 (detail)
  18. "Nel fotocolor: Salvador Dalì, «La sfinge di Barcellona», 1939", Il Giorno, 28/12/1977, Milano, n. p. (detail)
  19. Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 204
  20. 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 145
  21. Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 29, p. 89
  22. Picasso, Miró, Dalí : évocations d'Espagne, Palais des Beaux-Arts. Europalia 85 España, Charleroi, 1985, p. 237
  23. Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 41
  24. Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 30
  25. Conroy Maddox, Dalí, eccentric and genius, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1990, p. 68
  26. A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 15 (detail), p. 222 (detail)
  27. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 328
  28. Whitney Chadwick, Mith in surrealist painting 1929-1939: Dalí, Ernst, Masson, UMI Dissertation Service, [Michigan], 1994, p. 252
  29. Salvador Dalí: la vita è sogno, Electa, [S.l.], 1996, p. 26
  30. Salvador Dalí. Doeken en aquarellen uit de Albaretto Collection = Salvador Dalí. Toiles et aquarelles de la Collection Albaretto = Salvador Dalí. Canvas and water-colours from the Albaretto Collection, Electa, Milan, 1997, p. 54
  31. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 216
  32. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 216
  33. Joan M. Minguet i Batllori, Salvador Dalí, cine y surrealismo(s), Parsifal, Barcelona, 2003, p. 212 (detail)
  34. Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona, Figueres, 2004, p. 93
  35. It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, cover, p. 134-135
  36. Salvador Dalí i les arts : historiografia i crítica al segle XXI, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2005, p. 25
  37. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Marc Aufraise, Dalí versus Schaal, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista (DAS), [Figueres], 2006, p. 73 (indirect image), p. 74 (indirect image), p. 75 (indirect image), p. 76 (indirect image), p. 82, p. 83 (indirect image)
  38. Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 165
  39. Salvador Dalí - Surrealisti! = Salvador Dalí - Surrealist!, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Espoo, Figueres, 2007, p. 232 (indirect image), p. 234-235 (indirect image)
  40. Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, París, 2011, p. 183

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