The Three Sphinxes of Bikini

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2011

Cat. no. P 629

The Three Sphinxes of Bikini

Description

Date:
1947
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40.6 x 51.4 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower right: Salvador Dalí 1947
Location:
Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima (Japan)

Provenance

  1. Daniel Sickles, Paris
  2. Mme. V. Feidt Vilmorin, Neuilly
  3. Pascal Sernet, Paris
  4. Private collection, Geneve
  5. Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, May 11th, 1993
  6. Teizo Morohashi

Exhibitions

  1. 1947, New York, Bignou Gallery, New Paintings by Salvador Dali, 25/11/1947 - 03/01/1948, cat. no. 14
  2. 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 01/07/1956 - 10/09/1956, cat. no. 32
  3. 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, 08/09/1964 - 18/10/1964, cat. no. 40
  4. 1973, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 06/10/1973 - 02/12/1973, cat. no. 29
  5. 1974, Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, 14/03/1974 - 05/05/1974, cat. no. 15
  6. 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13/05/1989 - 23/07/1989, cat. no. 235

Bibliography

  1. New Paintings by Salvador Dali, Bignou Gallery, New York, 1947 - 1948, n. p.
  2. Salvador Dalí, "Dali goes atomic (il)", Times Tab., 24/11/1947, Chicago, Ill.
  3. Alonzo Lansford, "New Exhibition Reveals a Modified Dali", The Art Digest, 01/12/1947, New York, p. 13
  4. Dorothy Adlow, "Recent works on exhibition in New York", Christian Science Monitor, 13/12/1947, Boston, Mass.
  5. Fernando Sabino, "Conversa com Salvador Dali", 0 Jornal Do Rio de Janeiro, 14/12/1947, Rio de Janeiro
  6. Fernando Jiménez-placer, "Dali y la mitologia atomica", Semana, 10/02/1948, Madrid
  7. Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 40
  8. José Cubells, "La bomba de hidrogeno", Club Deportivo Ebro, 31/12/1952, s. l.
  9. Charles Bernard, "L'exposition Dali au Casino du Zoute", La Nation Belge, 04/07/1956, Bruxelles
  10. Camon, Aznar, José, "El surrealismo alcanza la luna", Abc, 06/10/1959, Madrid, p. 22
  11. Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1964, p. 83
  12. Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 58-59
  13. Louisiana Revy : Salvador Dalí, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1973, p. 30
  14. Salvador Dalí, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Stockholm, 1973/1974, p. 21
  15. "Salvador Dalí", Moderna Museet Stockholm, 26/12/1973, Stockholm, p. 21 (detail)
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  17. Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Barcelona, Madrid, 1975, p. 199
  18. "Dalí le pitre ne vaut pas le peintre", Télérama, 09/01/1980, Paris, n. p. (detail)
  19. Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 80
  20. Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 138
  21. Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela, The Tree of knowledge : the biological roots of human understanding, New Science Library, Boston & London, 1987, cover
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  23. Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 307, p. 306 (indirect image)
  24. René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 81
  25. Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 70
  26. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 411
  27. Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 70
  28. Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 81
  29. Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 89
  30. Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 506 (indirect image)
  31. The World of Salvador Dali and the 20 great masters of the 20th century, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2005, p. 52-53
  32. Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Estrella de Diego, Gala. Àlbum, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2007, il. 90 (indirect image) (detail)
  33. The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, p. 55
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  39. Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 221
  40. Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, p. 197
  41. Dalí atómico, Fundación Bancaria "la Caixa", [Barcelona], 2018, p. 30

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