LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Measurements:

12.99 in. (33.00 cm.) (height) by 9.84 in. (25.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Salvador Dali and dated 29 (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Goemans, Salvador Dalí, 1929, no. 9 Paris, Galerie Pierre Colle, Salvador Dalí, 1931, no. 6 New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 1965-66, no. 29, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí, rétrospective, 1920-1980, 1979-80, no. 78, illustrated in colour in the catalogue London, The Tate Gallery, Dalí, 1980, no. 50 Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo & Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí, 1914 a 1983, 1983, no. 134, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, De Picasso à Barceló. Les artistes espagnols, 2003, no. 11, illustrated in colour in the catalogue and on the front cover

Literature:

Salvador Dalí, La Conquête de l'irrationnel, Paris, 1935, pl. 2, illustrated James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí. Paintings, Drawings, Prints, New York, 1941, mentioned p. 15 Salvador Dalí, La Vie secrète de Salvador Dalí, Paris, 1952, illustrated pp. 96-97 Robert Descharnes, Dalí de Gala, Lausanne, 1962, illustrated p. 153 William S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, New York, 1968, mentioned pp. 220 & 226 De Deaeger (ed.), Dalí, Paris, 1968, no. 131, illustrated Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí, New York, 1976, no. 19, illustrated p. 23 Salvador Dali, La vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Figueras, 1981, pp. 194-195, illustrated pl. 2 Dawn Ades, Dalí, London, 1982, no. 67, illustrated p. 87 Salvador Dalí, La mia vita segreta, Milan, 1982, p. 198 Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Barcelona, 1982, no. 35, illustrated Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí: l'œuvre et l'homme, Lausanne, 1984, illustrated in colour p. 84 Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí, London, 1985, no. 19, illustrated p. 21 Meryle Secrest, Salvador Dalí, New York, 1986, mentioned p. 115 Karin v. Maur, Salvador Dalí, Stuttgart, 1989, illustrated p. XXI Robert Descharnes & Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí. The Paintings, Cologne, 1994, vol. I, no. 306, illustrated in colour p. 138 Salvador Dalí: The Early Years (exhibition catalogue), Hayward Gallery, London, 1994, illustrated p. 155 Ian Gibson, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí, London, 1997, fig. 64, illustrated Felix Fanés, Salvador Dalí, la construcción de la imagen: 1925-1930, Madrid, 1999, detail illustrated p. 157 Felix Fanés, El Gran masturbador, Madrid, 2000, detail illustrated p. 10 Grandes maestros de la pintura, Barcelona, 2001, p. 4 Luis Llongueras, Todo Dalí: vida y obra del personaje más genial y espectacular del siglo XX, Barcelona, 2003, p. LIX Salvador Dalí, Obra completa. Textos autobiográficos 1, Barcelona, Figueres & Madrid, 2003, detail illustrated Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 83 Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Barcelona & Madrid, 2003, p. 132 Laia Rosa Armengol, Dalí, icono y personaje, Madrid, 2003, p. 26 Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Obra completa. Álbum Dalí, Barcelona, Figueres & Madrid, 2004, p. 63 Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Milan, 2004, p. 37 Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí the impresario of Surrealism, London, 2004, p. 55 Huellas dalinianas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004, detail illustrated p. 263 Felix Fanés, La Pintura y sus sombras: cuatro estudios sobre Salvador Dalí, Teruel, 2004, p. 89 Rafael Santos Torroella, El Primer Dalí, 1918-1929: catálogo razonado, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia 2005, p. 371 Salvador Dalí: La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier (exhibition catalogue), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2006, p. 221 Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí, Catalogue raisonné of Paintings (1910-1939), no. 233, www.salvador-dali.org.

Provenance:

Salvador & Gala Dalí Cécile Eluard, Paris (acquired from the above circa 1982) Sale: Christie's, New York, 14th November 1989, lot 73 Acquired directly from the above.