Description

Date:

1945

Technique:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

66.5 x 86.5 cm

Signature:

Signed and dated lower left: GALA SALVADOR DALI 1945

Inscriptions:

Inscribed lower left: ATOMICA MELANCOLICA

Location:

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Dalí bequest

Provenance

1. Artist's collection

Exhibitions

1. 1945, New York, Bignou Gallery, Recent paintings by Salvador Dali, 20/11/1945 - 29/12/1945, cat. no. 9
2. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 114
3. 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 209
4. 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15/04/1983 - 29/05/1983, cat. no. 209
5. 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 47
6. 1990, México, D. F., Centro Cultural / Arte contemporáneo, Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 01/11/1990 - 31/01/1991, cat. no. 24
7. 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 67
8. 1997, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Exiles + emigrés : the flights of european artists from Hitler, 23/02/1997 - 11/04/1997, cat. no. 31
9. 1999, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Dali exhibition 1999, 12/06/1999 - 20/08/1999, cat. no. 45
10. 2001, Segovia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Dalí en las colecciones españolas, 09/10/2001 - 06/01/2002, cat. no. 23
11. 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 05/02/2004 - 23/05/2004, cat. no. 15
12. 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 01/06/2007 - 09/09/2007, il. 130
13. 2010, Milano, Palazzo Reale, Salvador Dalí, il sogno si avvicina, 22/09/2010 - 30/01/2011, no reference
14. 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 244
15. 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. 244

Bibliography

1. Salvador Dalí, "Dali Triumphs in Apotheose of Homerus", Dali News, 20/11/1945, New York, N.y., p. 1 (detail)
2. James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946, p. 81
3. Stanley Meltzoff, "David Smith and social surrealism", Magazine Of Art, 31/03/1946, Washington, D.c., p. 99 (detail)
4. Manuel del Arco, Salvador Dalí, Dalí al desnudo, José Janés, Barcelona, 1952, n. p.
5. "[Dali's folly...], (il.)", News-journal, 30/09/1962, Hansfield, Ohio, n. p.
6. Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 103
7. Justin Douglas, "Dali", Journal American, 12/12/1965, New York, p. 9
8. G.r. Swenson, "Is Dali Disgusting?", Art News, 31/12/1965, New York, N.y., p. 51
9. "Dali Painting", News, 19/02/1967, San Antonio, Tex., n. p. (detail)
10. Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 16 (+ detall)
11. Max Gérard, Dalí... Dalí... Dalí..., Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974, il. 7
12. 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 159
13. Cristina Gil, "Los Reyes inauguraron la exposición de Dalí", Ya, 16/04/1983, Madrid, n. p. (indirect image)
14. M.t. Berengueras, "Dalí: «Hoy es un día histórico para la química»", El Correo Catalán, 16/04/1983, s. l., p. 31 (indirect image) (detail)
15. Jordi Bosch, "El Príncipe de Asturias representó al genial artista ampurdanés", Los Sitios, 16/04/1983, Girona, p. 20 (indirect image) (detail)
16. Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 32, p. 90
17. Rudolf Rom, Salvador Dalí, the surrealistic angel, Lorenzo & di Salvo, San Francisco, 1985, p. 72 (imateg indirecte, detall)
18. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 306
19. Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural, Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 119
20. Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 123
21. Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 139, p. 140 (indirect image) (detail)
22. Jaime Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Anaya, Madrid, 1993, p. 75
23. A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 93
24. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 385
25. Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 78 (detail), p. 80
26. Exiles + emigrés : the flights of european artists from Hitler, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 150
27. Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, il. XXXII
28. Dali exhibition 1999, NTV Europe B.V., [S.l.], 1999, p. 135, p. 134 (detail)
29. Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 135
30. Dalí en las colecciones españolas, Museo de arte contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, 2001, p. 97
31. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 253
32. Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 148
33. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 253
34. Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 165
35. Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona, Figueres, 2004, p. 62
36. Marina García, Dalí per a nens, Albur, Barcelona, 2004, p. 5 (detail)
37. Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 89
38. Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 372
39. Shaun O'L. Higgings, Colleen Striegel, Press gallery : the newspaper in modern and postmodern art, New Media Ventures, Spokane, Washington, 2005, p. 93 (indirect image) (detail)
40. It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, p. 102
41. Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 7 (detail), p. 40
42. Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, London, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2007, p. 165
43. Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 194
44. Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 106
45. The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, p. 25 (indirect image) (detail), p. 54
46. Gavin Parkinson, Surrealism, art and modern science : relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology, Yale University, New Haven & London, 2008, p. 204
47. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Juan José Lahuerta, Salvador Dalí i les revistes, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2008, il. 245 (indirect image) (detail)
48. Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 22
49. Salvador Dalí : il sogno si avvicina, 24 Ore Cultura, Milano, 2010, cover (detail), p. 95
50. Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : the reality of dreams, Prestel, Munich, London, New York, 2011, p. 78 (detail), p. 80
51. Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 244
52. Dalí News, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2014, p. 49
53. Salvador Dalí, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, 2014, p. 137
54. Media - Dalí, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai Culture Publishing House, Shanghai, 2015, p. 178 (indirect image) (detail)
55. Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 57
56. Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, p. 32-33 (detail), p. 194-195
57. Dalí atómico, Fundación Bancaria "la Caixa", [Barcelona], 2018, p. 56

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