Endless Enigma
Cat. no. P 464
Endless Enigma
Description
- Date:
- 1938
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 114.5 x 146.5 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right corner: Gala Salvador Dali 1938
- Location:
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Dalí bequest
Provenance
- Artist's collection
Exhibitions
- 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21/03/1939 - 18/04/1939, cat. no. 10
- 1941, Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Salvador Dalí, 10/09/1941 - 05/10/1941, cat. no. 17
- 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 26
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 92
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14/05/1980 - 29/06/1980, cat. no. 144
- 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 170
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 33
- 1997, Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Années 30 en Europe : le temps menaçant, 1929-1930, 20/02/1997 - 25/05/1997, p. 194
- 1999, Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, 20/12/1999 - 28/02/2000, cat. no. 185
- 2002, North Miami, Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, 14/03/2002 - 30/06/2002, cat. no. 185
- 2003, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning, 22/02/2003 - 09/06/2003, p. 202
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 183
- 2011, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Locus solus : impresiones de Raymond Roussel, 25/10/2011 - 27/02/2012, p. 220
- 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 211
- 2013, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Dalí. Todas las sugestiones poéticas y todas las posibilidades plásticas, 27/04/2013 - 02/09/2013, p. 211
Bibliography
- "New Yorkers Stand in Line To See His Six-in-One Surrealist Painting", Life, 17/04/1939, New York, p. 45
- Dorothy Kantner, "«Endless Enigma» is just that", Sun-telegraph, 17/11/1939, Pittsburgh, Pa., n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. 16 (detail)
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