Cat. no. P 623
Ravel's Bolero
Description
- Date:
- 1946
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 36 x 23.8 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right: Dali / 1946
- Location:
- Private collection
Provenance
- The Capehart collection, New York
- Sherry Britton & Robert Gross, New York
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, May 18th, 1990
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, London, December 8th, 1999
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, Paris, December 3rd, 2008
Observations
This work was commissioned from Salvador Dalí in 1946 by the Capehart Corporation, a manufacturer of phonographs and radios. During the 1940s Capehart asked a number of artists to interpret a musical work visually — in Dalí’s case, Ravel’s Bolero.
Exhibitions
- 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 05/02/2004 - 23/05/2004, cat. no. 239
Bibliography
- "The Capehart (anunci)", Life, 27/01/1947, New York, p. 11
- "Salvador Dalí nació en ...", Aire Libre, 02/06/1947, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, p. 3
- Salvador Dali, "Anunci. El Capehart", Destino, 31/12/1949, Barcelona, n. p.
- "...y las cosas de Dalí", Aire Libre, 25/09/1950, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, p. 3 (detail)
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 396
- Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona, Figueres, 2004, p. 162
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Juan José Lahuerta, Salvador Dalí i les revistes, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2008, il. 207, il 208 (indirect image)
- Idoia Murga Castro, Pintura en danza. Los artistas españoles y el ballet : 1916-1962, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 2012, p. 272
- Media - Dalí, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai Culture Publishing House, Shanghai, 2015, p. 166 (indirect image)
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