Cour centrale de l'Île des morts (obsession reconstitutive d'après Böcklin) (Central Courtyard from The Isle of the Dead (Reconstructive Obsession after Böcklin))

The Isle of the Dead - Central Courtyard from the Isle of the Dead - Reconstructive Obsession after Böcklin

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

Cat. no. P 340

Cour centrale de l'Île des morts (obsession reconstitutive d'après Böcklin) (Central Courtyard from The Isle of the Dead (Reconstructive Obsession after Böcklin))

The Isle of the Dead - Central Courtyard from the Isle of the Dead - Reconstructive Obsession after Böcklin

Description

Date:
1934
Technique:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
99.7 x 72 cm
Signature:
Unsigned and undated
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. Robert de Saint-Jean

Observations

We have entitled this painting Cour centrale de l'Ile des morts (obsession reconstructive d'après Boëcklin) in the belief that this is the picture Dalí presented as number 31 in the exhibition at the Galerie Jacques Bonjean in Paris in 1934. This work was shown under the title Cour centrale de l'Ile des morts (obsession reconstructive d'après Boëcklin) in the Exposition Dalí at the Galerie Jacques Bonjean in Paris in 1934.

Exhibitions

  1. 1934, Paris, Jacques Bonjean, Exposition Dali, 20/06/1934 - 13/07/1934, cat. no. 31
  2. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 118

Bibliography

  1. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 157
  2. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 220
  3. Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 170

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