Diurnal Melancholy
The Chemist of the Empordà in Search of the Void
The Chemist of Figueres in Seach of Absolutely Nothing
Cat. no. P 416
Diurnal Melancholy
The Chemist of the Empordà in Search of the Void
The Chemist of Figueres in Seach of Absolutely Nothing
Description
- Date:
- 1936
- Technique:
- Oil and collage on wood panel
- Dimensions:
- 30 x 52 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right: Gala Salvador Dalí 1936
- Location:
- Museum Folkwang, Essen
Provenance
- Edward James
- Pintura Establishement, Vaduz
Observations
This painting is entitled "Diurnal Melancholy" for we believe it corresponds to the painting Dalí presented at the exhibition held at the l'Alex.Reid & Lefevre Gallery in London during the months of June and July 1936, number 6. Moreover, there is a photograph of the period by André Caillet in which is written "Diurnal Melancholy" on the reverse.
Exhibitions
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 74
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 48
- 1971, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dali Art-in-Jewels Exhibition & Paintings, 08/06/1971 - 10/07/1971, cat. no. 5
- 1985, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux Arts, Picasso, Miró, Dalí : évocations d'Espagne, 26/09/1985 - 22/12/1985, cat. no. 20
- 1987, Kobe, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Homage to Catalonia - Barcelona art city, 11/04/1987 - 17/05/1987, cat. no. 121
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 147
- 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Dali Monumental, 25/03/1998 - 27/05/1998, il. 24
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 150
Bibliography
- Dalí, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1957, p. 6
- Max Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 19 (detail)
- Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 48
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 22-23 (detail)
- Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 115
- Max Gérard, Dalí... Dalí... Dalí..., Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974, il. 12
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 156-157
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Dalí, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1977, p. 76-77 (detail), p. 247 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 303
- Petit journal Salvador Dalí, Centre Georges Pompidou, [París], 1979, p. 2
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 80
- Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 112
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 66
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, cover (detail)
- Rafael Santos Torroella, "Salvador Dalí y Catalunya", La Vanguardia, 05/06/1983, Barcelona, n. p.
- Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussel·les, [1985], n. p.
- Picasso, Miró, Dalí : évocations d'Espagne, Palais des Beaux-Arts. Europalia 85 España, Charleroi, 1985, p. 226
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Dalí (il.), Il Fantastico idalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia, Del Drago, Milano, 1986, p. 206-207 (detail)
- Homage to Catalonia - Barcelona art city, Commitee of exhibition (Homage to Catalonia-Barcelona art city), [S.l.], 1987, p. 190
- Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 129
- Homage to Catalonia. Barcelona Art City, [The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art], [Kobe], 1987, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 191
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, eccentric and genius, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1990, cover (detail), p. 48-49
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 105
- Alessandr Rogin, [Salvador Dalí : el mite i la realitat], Republica, Moscou, 1992, p. 75
- Nathaniel Harris, The Life and works of Dalí, Parragon, [Regne Unit], 1994, p. 38-39
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 258
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 184-185
- Dalí monumental, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, 1998, p. 36
- Antoni Gaudí Salvador Dalí, Loft, Barcelona, 2002, p. 79
- Sebastià Roig, Jordi Puig, Dalí : el triangle de l'Empordà, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triangle Postals, Figueres, Menorca, 2003, p. 24
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 179
- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 89
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 179
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 247
- Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Barcelona, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2004, p. 112
- Salvador Dalí : La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2006, p. 151
- Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, London, [Figueres], [Madrid], 2007, p. 112
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, París, 2011, p. 158-159
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