Philosophy illuminated by the light of the moon and the setting sun

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

Cat. no. P 477

Philosophy illuminated by the light of the moon and the setting sun

Description

Date:
1939
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
128 x 160 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower left corner: Gala Salvador Dali 1939
Location:
Private collection, Paris

Provenance

  1. Alfonso González Pardo, Lima, Peru

Exhibitions

  1. 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19/11/1941 - 11/01/1942, cat. no. 41
  2. 1941, Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Salvador Dali, 23/05/1941 - 14/06/1941, cat. no. 8
  3. 1941, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 22/04/1941 - 20/05/1941, cat. no. 8
  4. 1941, Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Salvador Dalí, 10/09/1941 - 05/10/1941, cat. no. 18
  5. 1942, Indianapolis, The John Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis Museum of Art), [Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali], 05/04/1942 - 04/05/1942, cat. no. 44
  6. 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15/03/1943 - 12/04/1943, no reference
  7. 1970, Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, 01/11/1970 - 31/12/1970, cat. no. 34
  8. 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18/12/1979 - 21/04/1980, cat. no. 260
  9. 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14/05/1980 - 29/06/1980, cat. no. 166
  10. 1986, Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia, XLII Esposizione internazionale d'arte la biennale di Venezia : arte e scienza, 01/01/1986 - 31/12/1986, p. 105
  11. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 217

Bibliography

  1. James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 71
  2. Stephen S. Kaiser, "Salvador Dali's search for heaven", The Pacific Art Review, 21/12/1942, San Francisco, p. 46
  3. Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. 17 (detail)
  4. Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 33
  5. Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, Galerie André François Petit, Paris, [1970], il. 34
  6. Salvador Dali : La Gare de Perpignan accompagnée d'une petite rétrospective, Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, [1977], n. p.
  7. Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 315
  8. A. M. Hammacher, Phantoms of the imagination : fantasy in art and literature from Blake to Dali, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1981, p. 313
  9. XLII Esposizione internazionale d'arte la biennale di Venezia : arte e scienza, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, 1986, p. 105
  10. Entender la pintura : Dalí, Orbis - Fabri, Barcelona, 1989, p. 14
  11. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 281
  12. Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural, Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 35
  13. A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 74, p. 74 (detail)
  14. Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 207
  15. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 317
  16. Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, París, 2011, p. 179

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