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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 6, 2014 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Including Property from the Estate of Edgar M. Bronfman | 37 | $****** - ****** | Moment de transition |
paintings
54 x 65 cm (21.26 x 25.59 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Salvador Dalí 34' (lower right); signed and dated again 'Dalí 34' (on the reverse)
Peter Watson (by 1936). Galerie André François Petit, Paris (by 1968).
Private collection, Geneva. Viktor and Marianne Langen, Meerbusch (1983).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, 1936, no. 1. Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Obsessions et visions, May-June 1968, no. 18 (illustrated; titled La tartane fantôme). Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Salvador Dalí: Oeuvres anciennes, 1970, no. 31 (illustrated). Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum, Salvador Dalí, October-December 1973, no. 15. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Salvador Dalí, December 1973-February 1974, no. 11. Frankfurt-am-Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, March-May 1974, p. 15, no. 9 (illustrated in color, p. 23). Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: Rétrospective, 1920-1980, December 1979-April 1980, p. 251, no. 183 (illustrated in color). London, Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, May-June 1980, p. 26, no. 97 (illustrated in color). Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Surrealismus: Traum des Jahrhunderts, October 1995-March 1996, no. 22 (illustrated). Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1919-1944: Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso.., July-November 2002, p. 215 (illustrated in color). London, Tate Modern; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dalí & Film, June 2007-September 2008, p. 233 (illustrated in color, p. 47, fig. 24). Kunsthalle Wien, Le Surréalisme, c'est moi!, June-October 2011, p. 313 (illustrated in color, p. 143). Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, Die schwarze Romantik: Von Goya bis Max Ernst, September 2012-January 2013. Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, Le Grand Atelier du Midi: De Cézanne à Matisse, June-October 2013, p. 235, no. 166 (illustrated in color).
R. Descharnes, Dalí: L'oeuvre et l'homme, Lausanne, 1984, pp. 148 and 447 (illustrated in color, p. 148). V. and M. Langen, Kunst des 20ten Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Viktor u. Marianne Langen, Ascona, 1986, vol. II, p. 283 (illustrated in color, p. 284). R. Descharnes and G. Néret, Salvador Dalí: The Paintings, 1904-1946, Cologne, 1994, vol. I, p. 197, no. 442 (illustrated in color). M. LaFountain, Dalí and Postmodernism: This is Not an Essence, Albany, 1997, pp. 53-54. P. Polsani, "The Image in a Fatal Kiss: Dalí, Lacan, and the Paranoiac Representation" in M.D. Morales and A.J. Poust, eds., Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí: Art and Theory, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 2001, pp. 159-160.
