The Opera. The Seven Lively Arts

• Billy Rose, New York
• Georges Farkas
• Alex Maguy, Paris
• Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, November 12th, 1988
• Private collection
• Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, May 14th, 1997
• Private collection
• Auctioned at Christie's, New York, November 9th, 2006

• One of the series of seven compositions for The Seven Lively Arts commissioned by Billy Rose to decorate the Ziegfeld Theater — in this case, the theme is opera. The original seven paintings depicted the arts of radio, concert, ballet, opera, boogie-woogie, cinema and theatre. When they were destroyed in a fire at Billy Rose’s house, the artist agreed to recreate the seven paintings (see catalogue number {549}, {588}-{593}).

• 1962, Wallingford, Conn., The Choate School, The Georges Farkas Collections of Old and Modern Art Masterpieces, January - June 1962, no reference
• 1964, Hollywood Boulevard, Municipal Art Gallery, An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Salvador Dalí, 20-11-1964 - 20-12-1964, cat. no. 11
• 1973, París, Alex Maguy. Galerie de l'Elysée, Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dalí, 15-5-1973 - 8-6-1973, no reference

• Louise Sweeney, "A Cash-and-Carry With Chandelier", Herald Tribune, 22/08/1965, New York, n. p. (indirect image)
• James T. Prior, "George Farkas - Driving Force Behind Success Of Alexander's", Record, 06/04/1967, Hackensack, N. J., n. p. (indirect image)
• Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dalí, Alex Maguy. Galerie de l'Elysée, Paris, 1973, n. p.
• Salvador Dalí, "Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dali", [galerie de L'elysée], 15/05/1973, Paris, n. p.
• Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 338
• Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 494
• Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 101
• Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 384

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