Etude pour "Le miel est plus douce que la sang" [sic] (Study for "Honey is Sweeter than Blood")
- 1926
- Oil on wood panel
- 37.8 x 46.2 cm (14.96" x 18.11")
- Signed and dated lower right corner: Salvador Dali / 1926
- Inscribed lower left corner: Etude pour "Le miel est plus douce que la sang"
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
Cat. no.
185
Provenance
Joë Bousquet
Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
Jacques Ulmann
Former collection J. Ulmann. Private collection, Paris
Auctioned in Christie's, London, February 9th, 2011
Exhibitions
1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, cat. no. 1
1970, Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, cat. no. 3
1986, [S. l.], Shueisha, Dali, cat. no. 14
1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, cat. no. 51
1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, cat. no. 11
1994, London, Hayward Gallery, Salvador Dalí: the early years, cat. no. 96
1994, Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ¿Buñuel!, Auge des jahrhunderts, p. 223
1995, Milano, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Dalí, Miró, Picasso e il surrealismo spagnolo, p. 87
2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, cat. no. 53
2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, il. 2
Bibliography
Salvador Dalí, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Knokke Le Zoute, 1956, p. 20
Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, Galerie André François Petit, Paris, 1970, il. 3
T. Ogura, R. Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, p. 97
S. Dalí, Le Mythe tragique de l´Angélus de Millet, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris, 1978, p. 167 (detail)
R. Descharnes ; S. Terayama, Dalí : the book of great masters, Zauho, Tokyo, 1978, il. 22
R. Santos Torroella, La Miel es más dulce que la sangre : las épocas lorquiana y freudiana de Salvador Dalí, Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1984, p. 107
T. Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S. l.], 1986, p. 16
Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 59
Louisiana revy, [Louisiana revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 10
Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centro Cultural / Arte contemporáneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 18
A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 79 (detail)
R. Descharnes ; G. Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989 (vol. I), Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 120
Y. David, ¿Buñuel!, Auge des jahrhunderts, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1994, p. 223
Salvador Dalí: the early years, Hayward Gallery, London, 1994, p. 169
M. di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 81
Dalí, Miró, Picasso e il surrealismo spagnolo, Skira, Milano, 1995, p. 87
¿Buñuel!, la mirada del siglo?, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 1996, p. 182
G. Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Evergreen (Benedikt Taschen), [Köln], 1996, p. 17
Realismo mágico : Franz Roh y la pintura europea, 1917-1936, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, 1997, p. 57 (detail)
A. Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Electa, Madrid, 1999, p. 12, p. 13 (2 details)
Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 42 - 43
O. Tusquets, Dalí y otros amigos, RqueR, Barcelona, 2003, p. XIV
Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 56
Dalí, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia, 2004, p. 91
R. Santos Torroella, El Primer Dalí, 1918-1929 : catálogo razonado, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern ; Generalitat Valenciana. Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Esport ; Publicaciones, [València] ; [València] ; [Madrid], 2005, p. 330
M. Luna ; T. Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 8
Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 15
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