Chevalier à la tour (The Knight at the Tower)

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

Cat. no. P 289

Chevalier à la tour (The Knight at the Tower)

Description

Date:
c. 1932
Technique:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
18 x 13.8 cm
Signature:
Signed lower right corner: DaLI
Location:
Private collection

Provenance

  1. F. G. Graindorge, Liège
  2. Maurice d'Arquian, Brussels
  3. Private collection, New York
  4. Auctioned at Christie's, London, November 30th, 1981
  5. Private collection, Basel
  6. Daniel Filipacchi, Paris
  7. David Tunkl Fine Arts, Los Angeles
  8. James and Marilynn Alsdorf collection
  9. Auctioned at Christie's, New York, November 11th, 2019

Observations

This painting is entitled Chevalier à la tour since it may correspond to the painting Dalí presented at the exhibition held at the Casino, Knokke Le Zoute, from July 1st to September 10th, 1956, catalogue number 14.

Exhibitions

  1. 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/1956 - 10/09/1956, cat. no. 14
  2. 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. 48

Bibliography

  1. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 178
  2. Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 102

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