Description

Date:

1943

Technique:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

92 x 62 cm

Signature:

Signed and dated lower left: [...] Dalí 1943

Location:

Private collection

Provenance

1. Mrs. Harrison Williams (Mona Bismark)
2. Fondation Mona Bismarck, Paris
3. Auctioned at Sotheby's, London, February 5th, 2013

Exhibitions

1. 1943, New York, Galleries of M. Knoedler, Dalí, 14/04/1943 - 05/05/1943, cat. no. 3a
2. 1946, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Four Spaniards : Dali, Gris, Miro, Picasso, 24/01/1946 - 03/03/1946, cat. no. 16

Bibliography

1. Dalí : april 14 to may 5, 1943, Galleries of M. Knoedler, New York, 1943, il. 3a
2. H. D., "Portraits by Dali", New York Times, 11/04/1943, New York, n. p.
3. H. B., "Done the Dali way", The Art Digest, 15/04/1943, New York, p. 15
4. "Rapport of fatality'", Newsweek, 26/04/1943, New York, p. 82
5. "Dali's ladies", Time, 26/04/1943, Chicago, Ill., n. p.
6. "Of Mrs. Williams By Dali Causes Stir", New York Herald Tribune, 31/12/1943, New York, n. p. (detail)
7. "$1600 Question - Is Joshua Art or Caricature?", New York Journal-american, 15/04/1945, New York, p. 10
8. Winthrop Sargeant, "Dali", Life, 24/09/1945, [chicago], p. 66
9. Igor Cassini, "Mona Williams-- a 'Rich Little Poor Girl'", Sun Telegraph, 27/11/1949, Pittsburgh, p. 3 (indirect image)
10. Igor Cassini, "Mona Williams--the rich little poor girl", Times, 27/11/1949, Detroit, Mich, n. p. (indirect image)
11. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 360
12. "El retrato de la mujer máselegante", LA VANGUARDIA, 05/02/2013, s. l., p. 30
13. Gabriel Montua, Dalís 20. Jahrhundert : die westliche Kunst zwischen Politik, Markt und Medien, De Gruyter, Boston, Berlin, 2015, il. XXV

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