Symbiosis of a Head of Sea Shells

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

Cat. no. P 273

Symbiosis of a Head of Sea Shells

Description

Date:
1931
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 x 27 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated left center at a later date: Dalí / 1931
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. Emilio Terry, Paris
  2. André François Petit, Paris
  3. Selma and Nesuhi Ertegun Collection, New York

Exhibitions

  1. 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/1956 - 10/09/1956, cat. no. 21
  2. 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 89
  3. 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. 43

Bibliography

  1. Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 32-33 (detail)
  2. Dawn Ades, Dada and surrealism reviewed, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1978, p. 267
  3. Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 164
  4. Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surrealisme, Filipacchi, Paris, 1980, p. 78 (detail)
  5. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Dalí (il.), Il Fantastico idalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia, Del Drago, Milano, 1986, p. 162-163 (reversed image)
  6. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 169
  7. Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 116
  8. Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 97

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