Mid-day?

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007

Cat. no. P 426

Mid-day?

Description

Date:
c. 1933
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
90 x 115.5 cm
Signature:
Unsigned and undated
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. Mrs. John Pitney

Observations

This painting is entitled "Mid-day" for we believe it corresponds to the painting Dalí presented at the exhibition held at the l'Alex.Reid & Lefevre Gallery in London during the months of June and July 1936, number 1.

Exhibitions

  1. 1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, 01/06/1936 - 31/07/1936, cat. no. 1
  2. 1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, 10/12/1936 - 09/01/1937, cat. no. 15
  3. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 28

Bibliography

  1. James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 58
  2. A. Oriol Anguera, Mentira y verdad de Salvador Dalí, Cobalto, Barcelona, 1948, p. XXII
  3. Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 80
  4. A. M. Hammacher, Phantoms of the imagination : fantasy in art and literature from Blake to Dali, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1981, p. 301
  5. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 263

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