Description

Date:

1949

Technique:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

49.5 x 38.3 cm

Signature:

Signed and dated lower right corner: Dali 1949

Location:

Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt

Provenance

1. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt

Observations

Exhibitions

1. 1964, New York, Fine Arts Pavilion New York World's Fair, Mother and Child in Modern Art, 22/04/1964 - 17/10/1965, cat. no. 5
2. 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 311
3. 1982, Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 28/02/1982 - 06/04/1982, cat. no.18
4. 1982, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 11/06/1982 - 11/07/1982, cat. no. 18
5. 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15/04/1983 - 29/05/1983, cat. no. 380
6. 1984, New Orleans, New Orleans Vatican Pavillion. Louisiana World Exhibition, Treasures of the Vatican, 12/05/1984 - 11/11/1984
7. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 245
8. 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 73
9. 1991, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Dalí exhibition, 10/10/1991 - 17/11/1991, cat. no. 53
10. 1996, Barcelona, La Pedrera, Dalí. Arquitectura, 19/06/1996 - 25/08/1996, cat. no. 24
11. 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21/10/1998 - 31/01/1999, cat. no. 46
12. 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Dali Monumental, 25/03/1998 - 27/05/1998, il. 40
13. 2000, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's optical illusions, 21/01/2000 - 26/03/2000, cat. no. 50
14. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 214
15. 2010, Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí: The late work, 07/07/2010 - 09/02/2011, cat. no. 13

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