Homme poisson (Fish Man)

The Fish Woman

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

Cat. no. P 383

Homme poisson (Fish Man)

The Fish Woman

Description

Date:
1930
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26.15 x 18.5 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower right corner: pour lolivette Salvador Dali 1930
Location:
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Provenance

  1. Galerie Pierre Colle, Paris
  2. Sir Michael Sadler, United Kingdom
  3. Private collection, Basel
  4. Auctioned at Phillips, Son & Neale, London, April 4th 1990
  5. Private collection, Paris
  6. Private collection, Basel
  7. Daniel Filipacchi, New York
  8. Private collection
  9. Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, November 2nd, 2010
  10. Schlumberger collection
  11. Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, November 4th, 2014

Exhibitions

  1. 1931, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Newer super-realism, Novembre 1931, cat. no. 10
  2. 1934, London, Zwemmer Gallery, Salvador Dali. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings & Etchings, 24/10/1934 - 10/11/1934, cat. no. 5
  3. 1936, Leicester, City of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Contemporary Art, 01/05/1936 - 20/06/1936, cat. no. 136
  4. 1999, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, 04/06/1999 - 12/09/1999, cat. no. 39
  5. 2018, Dallas, Meadows Museum, SMU, Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936, 09/09/2018 - 09/12/2018, cat. no. 2

Bibliography

  1. "There's Method in the Madness of French Super-Realists Whose Odd Works Are Now on View Here", The Hartford Courant, 22/11/1931, Hartford, n. p.
  2. Impressionist and modern paintings, drawings, watercolours and sculpture, Phillips, London, 1990, p. 53
  3. Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 93
  4. Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 42 (indirect image)
  5. Masterpieces of surrealism, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 52 (indirect image)
  6. Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, cover (detail), p. 97, p. 148

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