Music. The Seven Lively Arts

Red Orchestra

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2014

Cat. no. P 728

Music. The Seven Lively Arts

Red Orchestra

Description

Date:
1957
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
84 x 115.5 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower left: Dali / 1957
Location:
Nahmad collection, Switzerland

Provenance

  1. Billy Rose, New York
  2. Georges Farkas, New York
  3. Auctioned at Christie's, New York, November 15th, 1988
  4. Private collection (Japan)
  5. Private collection
  6. Auctioned at Sotheby's, London, February 5th, 2002
  7. Private collection
  8. Auctioned at Sotheby's, London, June 19th, 2013

Observations

One of the series of seven compositions for "The Seven Lively Arts" commissioned by Billy Rose to decorate the Ziegfeld Theater — in this case, the theme is music. The original seven paintings depicted the arts of radio, concert, ballet, opera, boogie-woogie, cinema and theatre. When they were destroyed in a fire at Billy Rose’s house, the artist agreed to recreate the seven paintings (See catalogue numbers 549, 588-593).

Exhibitions

  1. 1962, Wallingford, Conn., The Choate School, The Georges Farkas Collections of Old and Modern Art Masterpieces, January - June 1962, no reference
  2. 1964, Hollywood Boulevard, Municipal Art Gallery, An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Salvador Dalí, 20/11/1964 - 20/12/1964, cat. no. 10
  3. 1973, Paris, Alex Maguy. Galerie de l'Elysée, Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dalí, 15/05/1973 - 08/06/1973, no reference
  4. 1986, Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Trésors de Barcelone, 10/10/1986 - 28/12/1986, cat. no. 80
  5. 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 61
  6. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 258
  7. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 232
  8. 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 217

Bibliography

  1. "Choate Will Display 36 Paintings By Top Artists", The New Haven Register, 11/03/1962, Wallingford, CT, p. 30
  2. Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dalí, Alex Maguy. Galerie de l'Elysée, Paris, 1973, n. p.
  3. Salvador Dalí, "Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dali", [galerie de L'elysée], 15/05/1973, Paris, n. p.
  4. Trésors de Barcelone : Picasso, Miró, Dalí et leur temps, Fondation L'Hermitage, Lausanne, 1986, il. 80, p. 186
  5. Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 125
  6. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 339
  7. Louisiana revy, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 61
  8. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 495
  9. El Discòbol, Trabucaire, Canet, 2004, p. [36] (indirect image)
  10. Fum...damentalment genial, Museu del Tabac, Sant Julià de Lòria (Principat d'Andorra), 2004, p. 82
  11. Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 385
  12. Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 217

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