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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Surrealist Art Evening Sale | 45 | $****** - ****** | MOMENT DE TRANSITION |
paintings
54 x 65 cm (21.26 x 25.59 in)
oil on canvas
Peter Watson, Paris & London (acquired by 1936)
Galerie André François Petit, Paris (acquired by 1968)
Private Collection, Geneva
Viktor & Marianne Langen, Meerbusch (acquired in 1983)
Private Collection (by descent from the above. Sold: Christie's, New York, 6th May 2014, lot 37)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Dalí, 1936, no. 1
Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Obsessions et Visions, 1968, no. 18, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (titled La Tartane fantôme)
Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Salvador Dalí, œuvres anciennes, 1970, no. 31, illustrated in the catalogue
Humblebæk, Louisiana Museum, Salvador Dalí, 1973, no. 15, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Salvador Dalí, 1973-74, no. 11, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Frankfurt-am-Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, 1974, no. 9, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: Rétrospective, 1920-1980, 1979-80, no. 183, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
London, Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 1980, no. 97, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Surrealismus: Traum des Jahrhunderts, 1995-96, no. 22, illustrated in the catalogue
Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1919-1944: Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., 2002, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
London, Tate Modern; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum & New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dalí & Film, 2007-08, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Vienna, Kunsthalle, Le Surréalisme, c'est moi!, 2011, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Schwarze Romantik: Von Goya bis Max Ernst, 2012-13, no. 162, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, Le Grand Atelier du Midi: De Cézanne à Matisse, 2013, no. 166, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Robert Descharnes, Dalí: L'œuvre et l'homme, Lausanne, 1984, illustrated in colour p. 148
Viktor & Marianne Langen, Kunst des 20ten Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Viktor und Marianne Langen, Ascona, 1986, vol. II, illustrated in colour p. 284
Robert Descharnes & Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí: The Paintings, Cologne, 1994, vol. I, no. 442, illustrated in colour p. 197
Marc J. LaFountain, Dalí and Postmodernism: This is Not an Essence, Albany, 1997, discussed pp. 53-54
Pithamber R. Polsani, 'The Image in a Fatal Kiss: Dalí, Lacan, and the Paranoiac Representation', in Manuel Delgado Morales and Alice J. Poust (eds.), Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí: Art and Theory, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 2001, pp. 159-160
Dalí (exhibition catalogue), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris & Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2012-13, mentioned p. 154
Adrian Clark & Jeremy Dronfield, Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson, Who Shook Twentieth-Century Art and Shocked High Society, London, 2015, mentioned p. 149
