Christophe Colomb (Christopher Columbus)

Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

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

Cat. no. P 743

Christophe Colomb (Christopher Columbus)

Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

Description

Date:
1958
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
410.21 x 310.1 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower left: Gala Salvador Dali 1958
Location:
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)

Provenance

  1. Huntington Hartford, New York
  2. M. Knoedler and Co., New York
  3. Auctioned at Parke Bernet Gallery, New York, March 10th, 1971
  4. E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)

Exhibitions

  1. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 153
  2. 2007, St. Petersburg, Fl., Salvador Dalí Museum, Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, 02/02/2007 - 24/06/2007, cat. no. 54

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  2. Salvador Dalí, "Cristobal Colon descubre America", Vea y Lea, 03/04/1956, s. l., n. p. (detail)
  3. Tico Medina, "Dalí vestido de oro.", Gaceta Ilustrada, 12/12/1959, Madrid, n. p. (details)
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  112. Marco Di Capua, Salvador Dalí : la vita e l'opera, Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2002, p. 245
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  118. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 324-325
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  120. Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 161
  121. William Jeffett, Joan Fontcuberta, Imaginary gardens : mapping Dalí's landscapes, Salvador Dalí Museum exhibition series, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2003, p. 42
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  123. Lluís Llongueras, Todo Dalí : vida y obra del personaje más genial y espectacular del siglo XX, Generalitat de Catalunya, [Barcelona], 2003, p. LXXXIV
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  127. Dalí íntim, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2004, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
  128. Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, p. 117, 117 (detail)
  129. Marina García, Dalí per a nens, Albur, Barcelona, 2004, p. 7, p. 13
  130. Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 243, p. 256 (indirect image), p. 294 (indirect image)
  131. Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, París, 2004, p. 117
  132. Pollock to Pop : America's brush with Dalí, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 34
  133. Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 523 (indirect image), 524 (indirect image), p. 525 (indirect image)
  134. Lucía García de Carpi, Salvador Dalí, Ambos Mundos, Salamanca, 2005, p. 121, p. 132 (detail)
  135. Torsten Otte, Salvador Dalí : Eine Biographie mit Selbstzeugnissen des Künstlers, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2006, p. 106
  136. Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2006, p. 42 (detail), p. 79
  137. Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 58 (indirect image)
  138. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Estrella de Diego, Gala. Àlbum, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2007, il. 116 (indirect image)
  139. Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, London, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2007, p. 243, p. 256 (indirect image), p. 294 (indirect image)
  140. Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 117
  141. The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, p. 49
  142. Alessandro Del Puppo, Dalí et le surréalisme, E-ducation.it S.p.A, Florence, 2008, p. 89
  143. Mª Mercè Riera i Arnijas, Dalí, Ciro, [Barcelona], 2008, p. 121, p. 142
  144. Brassaï, Omaggio a Dalí, Abscondita, Milano, 2010, p. 111 (indirect image) (detail)
  145. Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 44
  146. Dalí al Castell de Figueres vist per Joan Vehí, Ajuntament de Figueres, Consorci Castell de Sant Ferran, Figueres, Figueres, 2010, p. 25, p. 90 (indirect images)
  147. Roger Michel Erasmy, Visions d'un monde nouveau, Roger Michel Erasmy, [S.l.], 2012, p. 9
  148. Dalí, Cadaqués. Un vincle captat per Joan Vehí, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2012, p. 115 (indirect image) (detail), p. 116-117 (indirect image) (detail)
  149. Gabriel Montua, Dalís 20. Jahrhundert : die westliche Kunst zwischen Politik, Markt und Medien, De Gruyter, Boston, Berlin, 2015, il. XL
  150. Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 3 (detail), p. 73
  151. Rem Koolhaas, Delirio de Nueva York : un manifiesto retroactivo para Manhattan, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2016, p. 244
  152. Fabio García Saleh, Revelaciones ocultas : las enseñanzas secretas de Néstor y Dalí, Obelisco, Barcelona, 2016, p. 172 (detail)
  153. Dalí Pitxot : une amitié au cœur du surréalisme, Marot, Musée de Beaux -Arts, [S.l.], Tournai, 2017, p. 118 (indirect image) (detail)

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