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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 26, 2020 | Bonhams | London | Impressionist & Modern Art | 14 | $****** - ****** | Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages |
paintings
94.5 x 74.5 cm (37.2 x 29.33 in)
oil on two panels
signed, inscribed and dated 'Gala Salvador Dalí 1937' (lower right on the left panel); signed, inscribed and dated 'Gala Salvador Dalí 1937' (lower right on the right panel)
(Possibly) Paul Éluard Collection, Paris.
Giacinto Scelsi Collection, Rome.
Fondazione Isabella Scelsi Collection, Rome (bequeathed by the above in 1987).
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, The Centenary Retrospective, 12 September 2004 – 16 January 2005, no. 155 (later travelled to Philadelphia).
Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Cent'anni 1900 - 1950. Opere dalla collezione permanente del MART, 2008 - 2009.
Rovereto, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Tra avanguardia e tradizione 1912 - 1945 e oltre. Opere dalla collezione permanente del MART, 2009 - 2010.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Dalí Dalí featuring Francesco Vezzoli, 19 September 2009 - 17 January 2010, no. 18.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Salvador Dalí, il sogno si avvicina, 22 September 2010 – 30 January 2011.
Vienna, Kunsthalle, Le Surréalisme, c'est moi! Hommage an Salvador Dalí, 22 June - 23 October 2011.
Rome, Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, Dalí, un artista un genio, 9 March - 1 July 2012, no. 25.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, What We Call Love, From Surrealism to Now, 12 September 2015 - 14 February 2016.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Dalí/Duchamp, 7 October 2017 - 3 January 2018, no. 137.
Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Gala Salvador Dalí, A Room of One's Own at Púbol, 7 July - 14 October 2018.
L. Martinis, 'A proposito di un dittico di Dalí', in I suoni, le onde. Rivista della Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, no. 9, Rome, April - June 2002 (illustrated on the front and back covers).
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí (eds.), Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí, online catalogue, 2004, no. P 508 (illustrated).
R. Descharnes & G. Néret, Salvador Dalí 1904 - 1989, The Paintings, Vol. I, 1904 – 1946, Cologne, 2007, no. 612 (illustrated p. 272; dated '1936').
M. Draguet, W. Jeffett & D. M. Johnson, Dalí & Magritte, exh. cat., Brussels, 2019 (illustrated p. 69).
signed, inscribed and dated 'Gala Salvador Dalí 1937' (lower right on the left panel); signed, inscribed and dated 'Gala Salvador Dalí 1937' (lower right on the right panel)
oil on two panels within the artist's frames
94.5 x 74.5cm (37 3/16 x 29 5/16in) (left panel, including the artist's frame)
87.7 x 65.8cm (34 1/2 x 25 7/8in) (right panel, including the artist's frame)
Painted in 1937
