Salvador Dalí
La Ville (illustration pour l'article "The American City Night-and-Day," The American Weekly)
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600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Salvador Dalí
(1904 - 1989)
La Ville (illustration pour l'article "The American City Night-and-Day," The American Weekly)
signed Salvador Dalí and dated 1935 (upper left)
pencil and charcoal on paper mounted on board
image: 11 by 15 ¾ in. 27.8 by 39.9 cm.
sheet: 11 by 19 ⅞ in. 27.8 by 50.5 cm.
mount: 12 ⅝ by 21 ¼ in. 32 by 54 cm.
Executed in 1935.
Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes have kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Danenberg-Beilin, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above on 8 December 1975 by the present owner
London, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, 1978, no. 12.31, p. 300, illustrated
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 1979-80, no. 270, p. 326, illustrated in color
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. II, no. 394, p. 466, illustrated in color
New York, The National Academy Museum and Phoenix Art Museum, Surrealism USA, 2005, pl. 35, p. 100, illustrated in color; p. 186 (New York only)
Salvador Dalí, "The American City Night-and-Day," The American Weekly, 31 March 1935, p. 5, illustrated
Salvador Dali, The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dalí, New York, 1976, p. 294
Conroy Maddox, Dali, New York, 1979, p. 80
Exh. Cat., Schloss Heidelberg, Salvador Dali: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Skulpturen, 1981, p. 67
Salvador Dalí,
400 obres de 1914 a 1983, vol. II, Madrid, 1983, pp. 105 and 268
Eduard Fornés, Dali and his books, Barcelona, 1987, p. 40
Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí: The Work, the Man, New York, 1989, p. 155, illustrated (in The American Weekly)
Meredith Etherington-Smith, The Persistence of Memory: A Biography of Dalí, New York, 1995, pp. 207 and 256
Juan Antonio Ramírez, Dalí: Lo crudo y lo podrido, Madrid, 2002, fig. 32, p. 59, illustrated
Michel Nuridsany, Dalí, Paris, 2004, p. 320
Nina Schleif, Schaufenster Kunst: Berlin und New York, Cologne, 2004, p. 177
Exh. Cat., Venice, Palazzo Grassi and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective, 2004-05, pp. 240, 489 and 572
Exh. Cat., Barcelona, Departamento de Cultura, Dalí: afinidades electivas, 2004, p. 439
Exh. Cat., Barcelona, CaixaForum; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum (and traveling), Dalí. Cultura de Masses, p. 194 and 282; p. 199, illustrated in color (in The American Weekly)
Elliott King, Dalí, Surrealism and Cinema, Harpenden, 2007, p. 56
Darío Villanueva, Imágenes de la ciudad: Poesía y cine, de Whitman a Lorca, Valladolid, 2008
Miguel Cabañas Bravo, Amelia López-Yarto Elizalde and Wifredo Rincón Garcia, eds.,
El arte y el viaje, Madrid, 2011, p. 117; p. 118, illustrated (in The American Weekly)
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