Untitled. Telephone transformed into a lobster
Cat. no. OE 30
Untitled. Telephone transformed into a lobster
Description
Dalí described this object-sculpture as a telephone transformed into lobster, and included it in the installation he conceived as a window display for the Bonwit Teller department store in New York in 1936. In an article in the daily New York Journal-American for December 20 of that year some details of this work are described. This is the first known identification of a work by Dalí that can be very plausibly related in both concept and composition with the Aphrodisiac Telephone the artist created in 1938.
Bibliography
- A. Hugues, "Dali Does A Surrealist Shop Window", New York American, 20/12/1936, New York, NY
- "Newest art sensation inspires Bonwit's to do «surrealist» windows", Retailing, 28/12/1936, New York, NY, ill., indirect image
- "This Crazy World ! Surrealism is Proving Contagious", Indiana Evening Gazette, 06/01/1937, Indiana, PA, p. 9, ill., indirect image
- "This Crazy World Surrealism Is Proving Contagious", The Rhinelander Daily News, 08/01/1937, Rhinelander, WI, p. 6, ill., indirect image
- "Surrealist Episode", The New Yorker, vol. 12, no. 48, 16-22/01/1937, New York, NY, p. 13
- Frank Caspers, "Surrealism in overalls", Scribner's Magazine, vol. 104, no. 2, 08/1938, New York, NY, p. 18, ill., indirect image
- "Fifth Ave. Crowd Stops to View Dali Window", New York Telegraph, 23/12/1939, New York, NY
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, p. [344]
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- Surreal things : surrealism and design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2007, p. 157, ill., indirect image
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- Valerie J. Fletcher, Marvelous objects : surrealist sculpture from Paris to New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Delmonico Books, Prestel, Washington, DC, Munich, London, New York, 2015, p. 55, ill., indirect image
- Torsten Otte, Salvador Dalí & Andy Warhol : encounters in New York and beyond, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, 2016, p. 163
- Dalí / Duchamp, Royal Academy of Arts, The Dalí Museum, London, St. Petersburg, FL, 2017, p. 198, ill., indirect image
- Gek van surrelisme, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2017, p. [182], ill., indirect image
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