Cat. no. P 689
The Colossus of Rhodes
Description
- Date:
- 1954
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 68.8 x 39 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right: Salvador Dalí / 1954
- Location:
- Kunstmuseum, Bern. Georges F. Keller bequest, 1981
Provenance
- Georges F. Keller
Exhibitions
- 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15/04/1983 - 29/05/1983, cat. no. 363
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 254
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 60
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27/04/1990 - 29/07/1990, cat. no. 83
Bibliography
- 400 obras de Salvador Dalí de 1914 a 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 205
- Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 39, p. 91
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí : la obra y el hombre, Tusquets, Edita, Barcelona, Lausanne, 1984, p. 347
- "Fine works featured in auction scheduled at Capital Fine Art", Los Angeles Times, 12/04/1985, Los Angeles, n. p. (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 333
- Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 145
- Eric Shanes, Dalí, Debate, Madrid, 1991, p. 125
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 472
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 238
- Von Matisse bis Dalí : Das Legat Georges F. Keller an das Kunstmuseum Bern = De Matisse à Dalí : le legs Georges F. Keller au Musée des beaux-arts de Berne, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 1998, p. 199
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 306
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 306
- Le Surrealisme c'est moi!, Kunsthalle, Wien, 2011, p. 120
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