Pierrot with Guitar

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2004

Cat. no. P 137

Pierrot with Guitar

Description

Date:
c. 1923
Technique:
Oil and collage on cardboard
Dimensions:
54.5 x 52.3 cm
Signature:
Signed lower right at a later date: Dalí
Location:
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Provenance

  1. Montserrat Dalí de Bas, Barcelona
  2. Eulalia Maria Bas Dalí, Barcelona
  3. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano

Observations

The following note is retained on file by the Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza: "Mrs. Bas Dalí" (sic), a cousin of the artist and the former owner of the painting, told us the following story: The painting was given her by the father and the sister of Salvador Dali, as a present for her first communion from...(sic) then on it hung in the nursery room. To the collage also belonged a spoon which was glued onto the canvas. Once the little girl needed a spoon and so broke it from the painting. The painting was unsigned and in 1955 Mrs. Bas Dali asked the artist to sign it, which he did with his last name" (C. Green, The European avant-gardes: art in France and Western Europe 1904-c. 1945. Zwemmer, London, 1995).

Exhibitions

  1. 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 9
  2. 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18/12/1965 - 13/03/1966, cat. no. 15
  3. 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21/11/1970 - 10/01/1971, cat. no. 4
  4. 1978, Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Katalanische Kunst des 20 jahrhunderts = Art i modernitat als països catalans, Catalan week, 1978, cat. no. 9
  5. 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10/06/1983 - 31/07/1983, cat. no. 80
  6. 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16/12/1989 - 11/03/1990, cat. no. 1
  7. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 33
  8. 1994, London, Hayward Gallery, Salvador Dalí: the early years, 03/03/1994 - 30/05/1994, cat. no. 51
  9. 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12/09/2004 - 16/01/2005, cat. no. 29
  10. 2012, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21/11/2012 - 25/03/2013, p. 89

Bibliography

  1. A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 18
  2. Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1964, p. 39
  3. "Voice of Broadway", Sentinel, 27/09/1967, Pomeroy, Ohio, p. 150
  4. Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 4
  5. Katalanische Kunst des 20 jahrhunderts = Art i modernitat als països catalans, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, 1978, p. 108
  6. Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera, Salvador Dalí, Nauta, Barcelona, 1980, il. 17
  7. Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 18
  8. 400 obras de Salvador Dalí de 1914 a 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 52
  9. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 35
  10. Salvador Dalí: the early years, South Bank Centre, [London], 1994, p. 111
  11. Rafael Santos Torroella, Dalí, época de Madrid, Residencia de Estudiantes - CSIC, [Madrid], 1994, p. 60
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  13. Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, "Los Putrefactos" : dibujos y documentos, Residencia de Estudiantes, [Madrid], 1995, p. 46
  14. Christopher Green, The European avant-gardes : art in France and Western Europe 1904-c.1945, Zwemmer, London, 1995, p. 99
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  17. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 35
  18. Rafael Santos Torroella, Dalí, época de Madrid, Residencia de Estudiantes, Ayuntamento de Madrid, Madrid, 2004, p. 68
  19. Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 59
  20. Rafael Santos Torroella, El Primer Dalí, 1918-1929 : catálogo razonado, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Generalitat Valenciana. Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Esport, Publicaciones, [València], [València], [Madrid], 2005, p. 227
  21. Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 89
  22. -, -, -, Marc Aufraise, Marc Aufraise, Caroline Barbier de reulle, Marijke Peyser-Verhaar, Astrid Ruffa, Ha, Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne [Coberta] | [Sumari] | Éditorial | Les prémices du théâtre photographique de Salvador Dalí (1932-1933) | Portraits de fantasmes | Salvador Dalí et la musiqu, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 36

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