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Untitled. Head of roaring lion with open mouth with a plate of fried eggs in its mouth

Untitled. Head of roaring lion with open mouth with a plate of fried eggs in its mouth
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Figueres, 2019 © Man Ray Trust, VEGAP, Girona, 2019
Untitled. Head of roaring lion with open mouth with a plate of fried eggs in its mouth
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Figueres, 2019 © Man Ray Trust, VEGAP, Girona, 2019

Cat. no. OE 15

Untitled. Head of roaring lion with open mouth with a plate of fried eggs in its mouth

Unique Original Work

Description

Date:
1933
Technique:
Assemblage
Dimensions:
Unknown
Location:
Unknown

In 1935, in A short survey of surrealism, the English poet David Gascoyne referred to a creation by Dalí that coincides with the characteristics of this object-sculpture: ‘a plaster head of a roaring lion with a fried egg in its mouth.’ This description can be identified with the work that appears in a photograph by Man Ray of the Exposition surréaliste at the Pierre Colle gallery in 1933. While it is true that this image can not be definitively associated with any of the titles that appear in the catalogue of the exhibition. This object-sculpture appears again, with other creations by Dalí, in a photograph by Carl Van Vechten which probably shows the window display of the Jacques Bonjean gallery in Paris in 1934. It has also been identified in various photographs of the interior of the apartments in which Dalí lived in Paris during the 1930s. The iconography of the lion’s head is typical of the artist’s painting, and first appears in 1929 in inaugural works of his Surrealist period such as The Memory of the Woman-Child.

Exhibitions

  1. 1933, Paris, Pierre Colle, Exposition Surréaliste, 07/06/1933 - 18/06/1933, not included in catalogue
  2. 1934, Paris, Jacques Bonjean, Exposition Dali, 20/06/1934 - 13/07/1934, not included in catalogue?

Bibliography

  1. Petite anthologie poétique du surréalisme, Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1934, between pp. 32-33, ill., indirect image
  2. David Gascoyne, A short survey of surrealism, Cobden-Sanderson, [Londres], 1935, pp. 108-109
  3. L'Échange surréaliste, Librairie Bon, Tokio, 1936, p. [75], ill., indirect image
  4. Julien Levy, Surrealism, The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936, lam. 17, ill., indirect image
  5. Robert Lebel, L'Arte moderna : metafisica, dada, surrealismo, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano, 1967, p. 378, ill., indirect image
  6. William S. Rubin, Dada and surrealist art, Harry N. Abrams, New York, [1968], p. 434, ill., indirect image
  7. William S. Rubin, Art Dada et Surrealiste, Seghers, Paris, [1976], pp. 434, 484, ill., indirect image
  8. André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Gallimard, [París], 1979, p. [274], ill., indirect image
  9. Salvador Dalí: retrospektive, 1920-1980, Prestel, München, 1980, p. 429, ill., indirect image
  10. La Vie publique de Salvador Dalí, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1980, p. 73, ill., indirect image
  11. Patrick Waldberg, Michel Sanouillet, Robert Lebel, Dada, surréalisme, Rive Gauche Production, Paris, 1981, p. 324, ill., indirect image
  12. Surrealisme a Catalunya : 1924-1936, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura, Barcelona, 1988, p. 192, ill., indirect image
  13. Otto Hahn, "La bande à Dali", Hors-sèrie Beaux Arts Magazine, 31/12/1988, Levallois, p. 13, ill., indirect image
  14. L'Objecte surrealista a Espanya, Diputació Provincial de Teruel, Fundació Caixa de Barcelona, Teruel, Barcelona, 1990, p. 145, ill., indirect image
  15. El Objeto surrealista en España, Museo de Teruel, Fundació Caixa de Barcelona, Teruel, [Barcelona], 1990, p. 145, ill., indirect image
  16. A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 18, ill., indirect image
  17. Julien Levy, Surrealism, Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, p. 104, ill., indirect image
  18. El Objeto surrealista, IVAM Centre Julio González, Generalitat Valenciana. Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Ciència, [València], 1997, p. 80, ill., indirect image
  19. André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Gallimard, [Paris], 2002, p. [252], ill., indirect image
  20. Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 81, ill., indirect image
  21. Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 487, ill., indirect image
  22. Charles Stuckey, "Dalí in Duchamp-Land", Art in America, no. 5, 05/2005, New York, NY, p. 152, ill., indirect image
  23. The Sources of surrealism, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT, 2006, p. 689
  24. Dali's universe and masterpieces of surrealists, The Museum of Art, Ehime (Japó), [2006], p. 7, ill., indirect image
  25. Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, London, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2007, p. 81, ill., indirect image
  26. Surrealism in Paris, Hatje Kantz, Basilea, 2011, p. [85], ill., indirect image
  27. Dalí i els seus tallers, Das Edicions, Figueres, 2013, cover, p. 18, ill., indirect image
  28. Dalí et ses ateliers, Das Edicions, Figueres, 2013, cover, p. 18, ill., indirect image
  29. Dalí and his studios, Das Edicions, Figueres, 2013, cover, p. 18, ill., indirect image
  30. Dalí y sus talleres, Das Edicions, Figueres, 2013, cover, p. 18, ill., indirect image
  31. Didier Ottinger, Dictionnaire de l'objet surréaliste, Gallimard, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2013, p. 68, ill., indirect image
  32. Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Bust de dona retrospectiu 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, pp. 35, 38, 42, ill., indirect image
  33. Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Busto de mujer retrospectivo 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, pp. 35, 38, 42, ill., indirect image
  34. Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Buste de femme rétrospectif 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 35, 38, 42, ill., indirect image
  35. Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Retrospective bust of a woman 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, pp. 35, 38, 42, ill., indirect image
  36. Media - Dalí, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai Culture Publishing House, Shanghai, 2015, p. 237, ill., indirect image
  37. 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. 45, ill., indirect image
  38. Pilar Parcerisas, Dalí, Duchamp, Man Ray : una partida d'escacs, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2016, p. 71, ill., indirect image
  39. Dalí / Duchamp, Royal Academy of Arts, The Dalí Museum, London, St. Petersburg, FL, 2017, p. 30, ill., indirect image

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