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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2024 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 110 | $****** - ****** | The Birth of Liquid Anguish (Naissance des angoisses liquides) |
paintings
54.6 x 38.1 cm (21.5 x 15 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated ‘Gala Salvador. Dali 1932" (lower left)
Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, by 1970.
Galleria Notizie, Turin.
Galerie Benador, Geneva, by 1971.
Galleria Levi, Milan, by 1973.
Davlyn Gallery, New York, by 1979.
Galerie Musashino, Tokyo, by 1989 and until at least 1994.
Dieter Scharf, Hamburg.
Private collection, Germany, a gift from the above in 2001.
Turin, Galleria Gissi, L inea europea, June - July 1969, no. 5 (illustrated pl. 5; titled "La fonte").
Milan, Studio Bellini, Panorama 6 , November - December 1969 (illustrated; with inverted dimensions).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, November 1970 - January 1971, no. 23.
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Dal í : Gem älde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, January - April 1971, no. 13, pp. 72 & 73 (illustrated p. 72).
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dal í , October - December 1973, no. 7 (illustrated p. 18).
Paris, Musée National d"Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, December 1979 - April 1980, no. 131, p. 194 (illustrated).
London, Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, May - June 1980, no. 70, p. 25 (illustrated no. 70; titled "The birth of liquid anxieties").
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, May - July 1989, no. 82, p. 106 (illustrated p. 107); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, August - October 1989.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Surreale Welten: Meisterwerke aus einer Privatsammlung, February - May 2000 , no. 47, pp. 99, 242 & 243 (illustrated p. 99); this exhibition later travelled to Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, June - September 2000; and Tubingen, Kunsthalle, September - November 2000.
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí , September 2004 - January 2005, no. 95, p. 164 (illustrated p. 165; titled "The Birth of Liquid Fears"); this exhibition later travelled to Philadelphia, Museum of Art, February - May 2005.
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Salvador Dalí: La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier, March - June 2006, no. 33, pp. 129 & 250 (illustrated p. 128).
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Scharf Collection, July 2008 - March 2010.
Girona, Art Museum, Modest Urgell: Més enllà de l"horitzó, December 2019 - May 2020.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Toyen, September 2021 - February 2022.
Vienna, Gallery Belvedere, Dalí - Freud, January - May 2022.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, on long term loan from 2002 until 2023.
C. Draeger, ed., Dal í by Dal í , Paris, 1970, no. 27, p. 12 (illustrated pl. 27; titled "Birth of Liquid Anxieties").
A. Jouffroy, h ommage à Dalí, Paris, 1980, p. 107 (illustrated).
G. Picon , Surrealism, Geneva, 1977, no. 3, p. 137 (illustrated).
M. Cervantes Saavedra, S. Dalí, Il Fantastico idalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia, Milan, 1986, p. 259.
K. von Maur, Salvador Dal í , Stuttgart, 1989, no. 82, p. 106 (illustrated).
F. Calvo Serraller, Veinte a ñ os Galeria Theo , Madrid, 1987 (illustrated).
R. Descharnes & G. Néret, Salvador Dalí: The Paintings , vol. I, 1904-1946, Cologne, 1994, no. 435, p. 751 (illustrated p. 194).
O. Tusquets Blanca, Monument a Salvador Dalí a Figueres , Figueres, 1999.
O. Tusquets Blanca, Dalí y otros amigos, Barcelona, 2003 (illustrated pl. X).
C. Grenier, Salvador Dalí: The Making of an Artist, Paris, 2011, p. 122 (illustrated).
SALVADOR DALÍ (1904-1989)
The Birth of Liquid Anguish (Naissance des angoisses liquides)
signed and dated ‘Gala Salvador. Dali 1932" (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 ½ x 15 in. (54.5 x 38 cm.)
Painted in 1932
