Suburbs of the "paranoiac-critical town"Suburbs of the "paranoiac-critical" afternoon (on the outskirts of European history) / Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town: Afternoon on the Outskirts of European History
- 1935
- Oil on panel
- 46 x 66 cm (18.11" x 25.98")
- Signed and dated lower left corner: Gala Salvador Dali / 1935
- Private collection
Cat. no.
434
Provenance
Edward James
Auctioned at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 30th, 1981
Comments
This work received different titles during 1936. The original title corresponds to the one given when it was first exhibited. The second title is given by Dalí when the painting was shown at the exhibition held at the Julien Levy Gallery in Nova York, from December 10th, 1936 to January 9th, 1937. Besides these various different titles, this painting also appears under the following names: "Panel" in Julien Levy´s book "Surrealism", The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936, and as "Unfinished" in "Minotaure", number 8, 15th of June 1936.
Exhibitions
1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, cat. no. 26
1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, cat. no. 12
1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, cat. no. 80
1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, cat. no. 49
1971, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dali Art-in-Jewels Exhibition & Paintings, cat. no. 6
1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, cat. no. 226
1986, [S. l.], Shueisha, Dali, cat. no. 10
1999, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, cat. no. 54
2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, cat. no. 151
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S. Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. 13 (detail)
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M. Gerard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 27 (detail)
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