LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (height) by 25.59 in. (65.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Salvador Dalí 34' (lower right); signed and dated again 'Dalí 34' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, Julien Levy Gallery, 1936, no. 1. Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Obsessions et visions, May-June 1968, no. 18 (illustrated; titled La tartane fantôme). Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Salvador Dalí: Oeuvres anciennes, 1970, no. 31 (illustrated). Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum, Salvador Dalí, October-December 1973, no. 15. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Salvador Dalí, December 1973-February 1974, no. 11. Frankfurt-am-Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, March-May 1974, p. 15, no. 9 (illustrated in color, p. 23). Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: Rétrospective, 1920-1980, December 1979-April 1980, p. 251, no. 183 (illustrated in color). London, Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, May-June 1980, p. 26, no. 97 (illustrated in color). Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Surrealismus: Traum des Jahrhunderts, October 1995-March 1996, no. 22 (illustrated). Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1919-1944: Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso.., July-November 2002, p. 215 (illustrated in color). London, Tate Modern; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dalí & Film, June 2007-September 2008, p. 233 (illustrated in color, p. 47, fig. 24). Kunsthalle Wien, Le Surréalisme, c'est moi!, June-October 2011, p. 313 (illustrated in color, p. 143). Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, Die schwarze Romantik: Von Goya bis Max Ernst, September 2012-January 2013. Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, Le Grand Atelier du Midi: De Cézanne à Matisse, June-October 2013, p. 235, no. 166 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

R. Descharnes, Dalí: L'oeuvre et l'homme, Lausanne, 1984, pp. 148 and 447 (illustrated in color, p. 148). V. and M. Langen, Kunst des 20ten Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Viktor u. Marianne Langen, Ascona, 1986, vol. II, p. 283 (illustrated in color, p. 284). R. Descharnes and G. Néret, Salvador Dalí: The Paintings, 1904-1946, Cologne, 1994, vol. I, p. 197, no. 442 (illustrated in color). M. LaFountain, Dalí and Postmodernism: This is Not an Essence, Albany, 1997, pp. 53-54. P. Polsani, "The Image in a Fatal Kiss: Dalí, Lacan, and the Paranoiac Representation" in M.D. Morales and A.J. Poust, eds., Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí: Art and Theory, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 2001, pp. 159-160.

Provenance:

Peter Watson (by 1936). Galerie André François Petit, Paris (by 1968). Private collection, Geneva. Viktor and Marianne Langen, Meerbusch (1983). By descent from the above to the present owners.