Description

Date:

1943

Technique:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

88.9 x 66 cm

Signature:

Signed and dated central right: [Gala] Salvador Dalí / 1943

Location:

Private collection

Provenance

1. Helena Rubinstein, New York
2. Helena Rubinstein Foundation, New York
3. Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, May 3rd, 2011

Exhibitions

1. 1943, New York, Galleries of M. Knoedler, Dalí, 14/04/1943 - 05/05/1943, cat. no. 8a
2. 1946, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Four Spaniards : Dali, Gris, Miro, Picasso, 24/01/1946 - 03/03/1946, cat. no. 18
3. 1976, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portraits of Helena Rubinstein, 29/01/1976 - 04/03/1976, no reference
4. 1977, London, National Portrait Gallery, Portraits of Helena Rubinstein, 06/05/1977 - 19/06/1977, cat. no. 5

Bibliography

1. Dalí : april 14 to may 5, 1943, Galleries of M. Knoedler, New York, 1943, il. 8a
2. "Rapport of fatality'", Newsweek, 26/04/1943, New York, n. p.
3. Helena Rubinstein, "Beauty born of War", Fascination, 31/03/1946, New York, p. 35
4. "Beauty expert's art collection", Chronicle, 15/10/1950, San Francisco, Cal., n. p. (indirect image)
5. "In the lives of career girls ( il )", Register, 29/10/1950, Des Moines, Iowa, n. p. (indirect image)
6. Jerome Zerbe, "A fortune in art bought by woman's vanity", Mirror, 03/12/1950, New York, p. 9 (matge indirecta)
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8. "Madame Helena Rubinstein", Realities, 31/12/1951, Paris, p. 33 (detail)
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10. Fleur Cowles, The Case of Salvador Dalí, Little, Brown, Boston, Toronto, 1959, between pp. 240-241
11. Fleur Cowles, Dalí, la vie d'un grand excentrique, René Julliard, Paris, 1961, n. p. (detail)
12. Charles Roland, "94-year-old Helena Rubinstein-young to the end", New York Journal American, 01/04/1965, New York, N.y., n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
13. Betty Milburn, "Era Ends With Sale Of Rubinstein Effects", Citizen, 19/04/1966, Tucson, Ariz, n. p. (indirect image)
14. "A Beautician's Booty", Time, 29/04/1966, New York, p. 28 (indirect image) (detail)
15. Beverly Grunwald, "Miracle cream", New York Times, 08/05/1966, New York, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
16. Dorothy Jacobsen, "Profile Only Skin Deep", Patriot Ledger, 29/06/1966, Quincy, Mass., n. p. (detail)
17. Ruth Kling, "She was a woman born before her time", Chicago Tribune, 16/02/1976, Chicago, n. p. (detail)
18. Portraits of Helena Rubinstein, National Portrait Gallery, London, (1977), il. 5
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21. Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 97
22. "La hija de Gala no reclama su herencia", Hogar y Moda, 11/11/1982, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
23. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 491, p. XXIX
24. Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural, Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 39
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26. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 351
27. Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 214
28. Marco Di Capua, Salvador Dalí : la vita e l'opera, Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2002, p. 214
29. "Dalí, pintor de cort de l'alta societat nord- americana", ARA, 27/04/2011, s. l., p. 36

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