The Flesh of the Décolleté of My Wife, Clothed, Outstripping Light at Full Speed
Portrait of Gala with Rhinocerontic Symptoms
Cat. no. P 680
The Flesh of the Décolleté of My Wife, Clothed, Outstripping Light at Full Speed
Portrait of Gala with Rhinocerontic Symptoms
Description
- Date:
- c. 1954
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 39 x 31.5 cm
- Signature:
- Unsigned and undated
- Location:
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
Provenance
- Artist's collection
Observations
This work, entitled "The Flesh of the Décolleté of My Wife, Clothed, Outstripping Light at Full Speed", may be the picture Dalí presented as number 5 in the exhibition at the Carstairs Gallery in New York from 1 December 1954 to 30 January 1955.
Exhibitions
- 1954, New York City, Carstairs Gallery, Dali 1954, December 1954 - January 1955, cat. no. 5
- 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 48
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 135
- 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15/04/1983 - 29/05/1983, cat. no. 366
Bibliography
- Javier Dalfo Hors, "Dalí el fenómeno de Port - Lligat", Rumbos, 31/05/1956, Madrid, Barcelona, n. p. (detail) (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1964, p. 93
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 118
- Emily Genauer, "400 Works by Dali Prove It: He's Great", New York Herald-tribune, 18/12/1965, New York, N.y., n. p. (indirect image)
- Ruth Robinson, "Dali and his art attract throng to preview at Hartford Gallery", New York Times, 18/12/1965, New York, p. 34 (indirect image)
- Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 48
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 367
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 166
- "Murio Gala Dalí, en Port Lligat (pàg.2)", Los Sitios, 11/06/1982, Girona, p. 7
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 106
- 400 obras de Salvador Dalí de 1914 a 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, cover, p. 10
- Distribucions d'art surrealista, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Barcelona, 1983, p. 25
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí : la obra y el hombre, Tusquets, Edita, Barcelona, Lausanne, 1984, p. 350
- "«Steine aus dem Himmel unseres Kindes»", Der Spiegel, 28/05/1984, Hamburg, p. 231 (detail)
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 178
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 466
- José Luis Giménez-Frontín, Teatre-Museu Dalí, Tusquets, Electa, [Barcelona], Madrid, 1994, p. 122 (indirect image), p. 124
- Alberto Mario Perrone, Salvador Dalí, escándalo, transgresión y genio, Longseller, Buenos Aires, 2001, p. 139 (detail)
- Artcurial : collection Perrot Moore, Artcurial : Briest - Poulain - Le Fur, Paris, 2003, p. 96
- Sebastià Roig, Jordi Puig, Dalí : el triangle de l'Empordà, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, Figueres, Menorca, 2003, p. 84 (indirect image), p. 86 (indirect image)
- Dalí a l'Empordà : la mirada dels fotògrafs empordanesos, Amics dels Museus Dalí, Figueres, 2003, p. 18-19 (indirect image), p. 116-117 (indirect image)
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 300
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 300
- El Llibre de l'any. Biblioteca bàsica de les comarques gironines, Hermes Comunicacions, El Punt, Girona, 2004, p. 284 (indirect image) (detail)
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí de Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, [Figueres], Sant Lluís, Menorca, 2005, p. 108 (indirect image), p. 121 (indirect image)
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí : foto guia, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, [Figueres], Sant Lluís, Menorca, 2007, p. 40-41 (indirect image)
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 78
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí. Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, [Figueres], Sant Lluís, Menorca, 2016, p. 152 (indirect image), p. 158-159 (indirect image) (detail)
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