LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and ink on paper

Measurements:

29.72 in. (75.50 cm.) (height) by 21.97 in. (55.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Salvador Dalí 1937' (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, November 1941 - January 1942, no. 60, p. 82 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, February 1942; Cleveland, Museum of Art, March 1942; Indianapolis, John Herron Museum of Art, April - May 1942; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, May - June 1942; Williamsburg, Virginia, College of William and Mary, Muscarelle Museum of Art, October - November 1942; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, January 1943; Detroit, Institute of Art, March - April 1943; and Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, April - May 1943. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Drawings, February - May 1944, p. 90 (illustrated p. 73); this exhibition later travelled to Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, June - July 1944; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, August 1944; Hagerstown, Washington, County Museum of Art, October 1944; Saint Paul, Gallery and School of Art, November - December 1944; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, January 1945; Milwaukee, Art Institute, February - March 1945; Worcester, Massachusetts, Art Museum, March - April 1945; and Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum, May - June 1945. Montrouge, Centre culturel et artistique, XXIIe Salon de Montrouge, May - June 1977, no. 92 (illustrated). Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dali, rétrospective, 1920-1980, December 1979 - April 1980, no. 201, p. 270 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions). London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dali, May - June 1980, no. 135, p. 27 (with incorrect dimensions). Milan, Palazzo Reale, I surrealisti, June - September 1989, p. 625 (illustrated p. 355; with incorrect medium). Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Die Surrealisten, December 1989 - February 1990, no. 60, p. 409 (illustrated p. 226). Paris, Artcurial, Papiers de Peintres, Papiers de Sculpteurs, March - May 1991. Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Il disegno del nostro secolo: Prima parte: Da Klimt a Wols, April - July 1994, no. 214, p. 418(illustrated p. 319). Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ¿Buñuel! La mirade del siglo, July - October 1996, p. 393 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Mexico, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, December 1996 - March 1997. New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., XIX & XX Century Master Paintings and Sculptures, October - November 1998, pl. 17 (illustrated).

Literature:

J. Thrall Soby, Salvador Dali, New York, 1946, p. 87 (illustrated).

Provenance:

The artist, until at least 1943. Ambassador Alfonso Gonzalez Pardo, Chile & New York, by 1944. Private collection, New York. Edmund Peel, Madrid. Cortes-Perez Escolar, Madrid, by December 1979. Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 14 November 1984, lot 258. Private collection; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 April 1989, lot 344. Artcurial, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale, until at least March 1997. Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach. Private collection, Palm Beach. Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 2003, lot 51. Acquired at the above sale.