Ampurdanese Yang and Yin

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

Cat. no. P 423

Ampurdanese Yang and Yin

Description

Date:
c. 1934
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
64.8 x 53.8 cm
Signature:
Unsigned and undated
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. Marquis of Cuevas and Mary Rockefeller de Cuevas
  2. Auctioned at Christie's, New York, May 8th, 2002
  3. Private collection, New York
  4. Private collection, Switzerland
  5. Private collection, France
  6. Auctioned at Christie's, London, February 6th, 2013

Observations

Although this painting is traditionally considered from 1936, the iconographic elements correspond to the ones in paintings from 1934. For this reason the artwork has been moved to the 1934 period.

Exhibitions

  1. 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 24

Bibliography

  1. "Beaton's Scrapbook", Vogue, 01/06/1935, New York, NY, p. 70 (indirect image)
  2. Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1964, p. 58
  3. Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 23
  4. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 262
  5. Vicent Santamaria de Mingo, El Pensament de Salvador Dalí en el llindar dels anys trenta, Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, 2005, p. 216

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