Swans Reflecting Elephants
- 1937
- Oil on canvas
- 51 x 77 cm (20.08" x 30.31")
- Signed and dated lower left: Gala Salvador Dali 1937
- Private collection
Núm. cat.
454
Provenance
Edward James
Auctioned at Sotheby´s, Londres, June 30th, 1976
Cavalieri Holding, Geneva
Auctioned at Sotheby´s, New York, May 9th, 1995
Comments
This painting was confiscated by the German Army during the French Occupation, in the Second World War. It remained in storage in the "Salle des martyrs" at the Jeu de Paume, Paris from 1940 to 1944
Exhibitions
1974, Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, cat. no. 12
1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, cat. no. 227
1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, cat. no. 161'
1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, cat. no. 186
1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, cat. no. 32
1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, cat. no. 40
2003, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning, no reference
Bibliography
Salvador Dalí, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 1974, p. 26
R. Descharnes ; S. Terayama, Dalí : the book of great masters, Zauho, Tokyo, 1978, il. 33
Salvador Dalí : rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 294
Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 153
400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, Barcelona, 1983, p. 125
Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 21, p. 88
Louisiana revy, [Louisiana revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 26-27
Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 233
Salvador Dalí, Meisterwerke der dreissiger Jahre, Schirmer-Mosel, München, 1989, il. 28
Entender la pintura : Dalí, Orbis-Fabri, Barcelona, 1989, p. 21
P. Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston, 1990, p. 86-87
Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, cover (detail), p. 95
L. Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 107
E. Shanes, Dalí, Debate, Madrid, 1991, p. 91
A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 232 (detail)
R. Descharnes ; G. Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989 (vol. I), Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 288
N. Harris, The Life and works of Dalí, Parragon, [S. l.], 1994, p. 46-47
M. di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 194
J. Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 88-89
C. Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 16
A surreal life: Edward James, 1907-1984, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, 1998, p. 51
Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, 2002, p. 212
The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning -- Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, 2003, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2003, cover (detail), p. 69
Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 198
A. Gaultier, The Little book of Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 68-69 (detail)
T. Raquejo, Dalí: metamorfosis, Edilupa, [Madrid], 2004, p. 66 (detail), p. 123
Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [S. l.], 2004, p. 101 (detail)
S. Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 62
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