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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 5A | $****** - ****** | Naissance de l'ameublement paranoïaque |
Works on Paper
63.8 x 48.6 cm (25.13 x 19.13 in)
gouache and charcoal on paper
Edward James, London (probably acquired from the artist and until 1983).
The Mayor Gallery, Ltd., London.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1984.
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, 20 Years of Surrealist Paintings, April-May 1964.
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Thirty Years of Surrealist Paintings from the Edward James Collection, April-May 1967, p. 4, no. 23 (titled Lips and Nose in an Interior; with incorrect medium).
Bedford, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Paintings from the Edward James Collection, July-August 1967, no. 31 (titled Lips and Nose in an Interior; with incorrect medium).
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Surrealist Pictures from the Edward James Collection: Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali´, Max Ernst, Le´onor Fini, Rene´ Magritte, Paul Nash, Pablo Picasso, Pawel Tchelitchew, 1969, no. 5 (titled A Room with Lips and Nose; with incorrect medium).
London, Worthing Art Gallery, Paintings from the Edward James Collection, 1969, no. 25 (titled Lips and Nose in an Interior).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Salvador Dalí: Bruikleen uit de collectie Edward F.W. James, November 1970-January 1971, no. 118 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Dali´, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck: Ausstellung Salvador Dali´ unter Einschluss der Sammlung Edward F.W. James, January-April 1971, p. 220, no. 97 (illustrated, p. 221; with incorrect medium).
Brighton Art Gallery and Museum, Follies and Fantasies, May-August 1971, p. 11, no. 104 (titled Lips and Nose in an Interior; with incorrect medium).
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and London, Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí: Rétrospective, 1920-1980, December 1979-July 1980, p. 232, no. 172 and p. 27, no. 131 respectively (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
London, The Mayor Gallery and Robert Fraser Gallery, Fifty Drawings by Salvador Dali´ from the Edward James Collection, November-December 1983, no. 24.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., XIX & XX Century Master Drawings & Watercolors, April-May 1984, no. 19 (illustrated; titled Lip and Nose in an Interior; with incorrect medium).
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Kunsthaus Zürich, Salvador Dalí, May-October 1989, p. 183, no. 140 (illustrated; with incorrect medium)
Barcelona, La Pedrera, Dalí: Architecture, June-August 1996, p. 212, no. 79 (illustrated in color, p. 109; with incorrect medium).
A. Breton, Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme, Paris, 1938, p. 61 (illustrated).
R. Hollis, Modern Chairs, 1918-1970, exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, July-August 1970 (illustrated).
M. Buysschaert and F. Malerba, eds., Dalí, exh. cat., Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2004, pp. 284 and 494 (with incorrect medium).
R. and N. Descharnes, Dalí: The Hard and The Soft, Spells for the Magic of Form, Sculptures and Objects, Eccart, 2004, p. 41, no. 79 (illustrated in color; with incorrect medium).
A. Umland, ed., Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013, p. 205 (illustrated in color, fig. 15; with incorrect medium).
gouache and charcoal on paper
25 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. (63.7 x 48.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1937
