- Cat. no. P
- 239
Les accommodations des désirs (Accommodations of Desire)

Cat. no. P 239
Accommodations of Desire
1929
Description
- Date:
- 1929
- Technique:
- Oil and collage on cardboard
- Dimensions:
- 22.5 x 35 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower left corner: Salvador Dalí 29
- Location:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Jacques and Nastasha Gelman Collection,
- André Breton, Paris
- Julien Levy Gallery, New York
- Wright Ludington, Santa Barbara (Clifòrnia)
- Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, November 4th, 1981
- Jacques and Nastasha Gelman, Mexico
- 1929, París, Galerie Goemans, Dalí, 20-11-1929 - 5-12-1929, cat. no. 2
- 1931, París, Pierre Colle, Exposition Salvador Dalí, 3-6-1931 - 15-6-1931, cat. no. 5
- 1938, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, The Painters of Still Life, 25-1-1938 - 15-2-1938, cat. no. 35
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19-11-1941 - 11-1-1942, cat. no. 5
- 1942, Indianapolis, The John Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis Museum of Art), [Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali], 5-4-1942 - 4-5-1942, cat. no. 5
- 1953, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Fiesta Exhibition Picasso, Gris, Miro, Dali, 14-8-1953 - 30-8-1953, cat. no. 55
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 245
- 1967, New York, Knoedler Gallery, Space and dream, 5-12-1967 - 29-12-1967, no reference
- 1968, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dada, surrealism, and their heritage, 27-3-1968 - 9-6-1968, cat. no. 58
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21-11-1970 - 10-1-1971, cat. no. 11
- 1979, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18-12-1979 - 21-4-1980, cat. no. 58
- 1991, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 25-4-1991 - 26-8-1991, no reference
- 1994, London, Hayward Gallery, Salvador Dalí: the early years, 3-3-1994 - 30-5-1994, cat. no. 116
- 2001, London, Tate Modern, Surrealism desire unbound, 20-9-2001 - 1-1-2002, il. 2
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12-9-2004 - 16-1-2005, cat. no. 69
- 2006, Cleveland, Ohio. USA, Cleveland Museum of Art, Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí, 15-10-2006 - 7-1-2007, cat. no. 7:33
- 2007, Nueva York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí, 7-3-2007 - 3-6-2007, cat. no. 7:33
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 1-6-2007 - 9-9-2007, il. 35
- 2018, Dallas, Meadows Museum, SMU, Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936, 9-9-2018 - 9-12-2018, cat. no. 1
- From the Ludington Collection, [S.n.], [S.l.], [s.d.], p. 35
- n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, "Les accommodations des désirs (il)", La Révolution Surréaliste, 15/12/1929, Paris, p. 18, p. 20 (detail)
- Julien Levy, Surrealism, The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936, p. 169
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 35
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, p. V (detail)
- André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture : suivi de Genèse et perspectives artistiques du surréalisme et de fragments inédits, Brentano's, New York, 1945, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret life of Salvador Dalí, Vision, London, 1948, Il. V
- s. a., "San Francisco sees the Ludington collection", Art News, 30/06/1948, New York, n. p. (detail)
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 9
- Hijo Chicharro, "¿Hasta donde se contradice Salvador Dali ?", Correo Literario, 01/06/1950, Madrid, p. 1
- Armand Lanoux, "Salvador Dali "monstre sacré"", Jardin Des Arts, 30/09/1955, Paris, n. p. (detail)
- André Barbault, Cancer, Du Seuil, [París], 1957, p. 86-87 (detail)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 25
- Marcel Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1959, p. 202
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 39
- Salvador Dalí, "Qui est Salvador Dali? Autoportrait anecdotique par Salvador Dali", Â la Page, 31/01/1965, Paris, p. [33] (detail)
- Paul H. Walton, Dali / Miró, Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1967, p. 44
- Robert Goldwater, Space and dream, Walker and Company, New York, 1967, p. 38
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 150 (detail), il. 240 (detail)
- William S. Rubin, Dada, surrealism, and their heritage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1968, p. 109
- Eliot Fremont-smith, "Fun, If You Have an Iron Stomach", Journal, 17/03/1968, Winston-salem, S.c., n. p. (detail)
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [París], 1970, p. 110-111 (detail), p. 116-117 (detail)
- Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 11
- Carlo Sala, Max Ernst et la démarche onirique, Klincksieck, Paris, 1970, il. 34 (detail)
- José Angelo Gaiarsa, Respiraçao e imaginaçao, Jose Angelo Gaiarsa, Sao Paulo, 1971, p. 19 (detail)
- Three generations of twentieth-century art : the Sidney and Harriet Janis collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1972, p. 180
- Max. Gérard, Dalí... Dalí... Dalí..., Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974, il. 81
- Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, il. 19, p. 102
- Antonio Fernández Molina, Dalí, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Servicio de Publicaciones, [Pamplona], 1978, p. 54 (detail)
- Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp et son temps : 1887-1968, Time-Life International, Nederland, 1978, p. 139
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 129
- André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Gallimard, [París], 1979, p. 73
- Hommage à Dalí, Vilo, Paris, 1980, p. 90
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. III
- Paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the Julien Levy collection, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 1981, il. 32
- Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 86
- El Surrealismo, Cátedra, Madrid, 1983, p. [164]
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1983, p. 17
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 16
- Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 19
- Robert Lebel, Michel Sanouillet, Patrick Waldberg, Der Surrealismus : Dadaismus und metaphysische Malerei, Taschen, Köln, 1987, p. 200
- Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 40-41
- René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 31
- André Breton, la beauté convulsive, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1991, p. 70 (indirect image), p. 279
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 70
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 14 (2 details), p. 166 (detail)
- Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood, Realism, rationalism, surrealism : art between the wars, Yale University Press in association with the Open University, New Haven & London, 1993, p. 172
- Meredith Etherington-Smith, The Persistence of memory : a biography of Dalí, Random House, New York, 1993, n. p.
- Dalí, the early years : talks and events, Hayward Gallery, London, 1994, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí: the early years, South Bank Centre, [London], 1994, p. 152 (detail), p. 184
- Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 56-57
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 105
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 148
- Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 13
- Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Evergreen (Benedikt Taschen), [Köln], 1996, p. 24
- Haim Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, p. 98
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 45
- Gérard Durozoi, Histoire du mouvement surréaliste, Hazan, Paris, 1997, p. 149
- Robert Radford, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1997, p. 129
- Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Taschen, Köln, [etc.], 1999, p. 24
- Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 52
- David Lomas, The Haunted self : surrealism, psychoanalysis, subjectivity, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2000, p. 148
- Fèlix Fanés, El Gran masturbador, Electa, Madrid, 2000, p. 9, p. 11 (detail)
- Surrealism desire unbound, Tate Publishing, London, 2001, p. 12
- Simon Wilson, Surrealist painting, Phaidon, London, New York, 2001, p. 198
- Gérard Durozoi, History of the surrealist movement, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London, 2002, p. 143
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 79
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 79
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 123
- Beatriz Fernández Ruiz, De Rabelais a Dalí : la imagen grotesca del cuerpo, Universitat de València, València, 2004, p. 258
- Enric Bou, Daliccionario : objetos, mitos y símbolos de Salvador Dalí, Tusquets, Barcelona, 2004, p. 14 (detail)
- Fèlix Fanés, La Pintura y sus sombras : cuatro estudios sobre Salvador Dalí, Museo de Teruel, Teruel, 2004, p. 61
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, Paris, 2004, p. 52
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, p. 52
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí the impresario of surrealism, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, p. 52
- Tonia Raquejo, Dalí: metamorfosis, Edilupa, [Madrid], 2004, p. 72
- Vicent Santamaria de Mingo, El Pensament de Salvador Dalí en el llindar dels anys trenta, Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, 2005, p. 226 (detail)
- s. a., "The Grand Master of Surrealism Salvador Dali", Usa today magazine, 31/05/2005, McLean, VA, p. 39
- Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 17
- William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belén Lord, Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, Cleveland, 2006, p. 348
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 59
- Alessandro Del Puppo, Dalí et le surréalisme, E-ducation.it S.p.A, Florence, 2008, p. 120-121, 124-125 (detail)
- Un perro andaluz 80 años después, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, La Fábrica, Madrid, 2009, p. 138
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 20
- Dalí, Lorca y la Residencia de Estudiantes, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], 2010, p. 284 (detail)
- Culture Chanel, Museum of Contemporary Art [MoCA], Shanghai, 2011, p. 260-261
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. 102
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : the reality of dreams, Prestel, New York, Munich, London, 2011, p. 45
- Roger Rothman, Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small, University of Nebraska, Lincoln & London, 2012, p. 69
- Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 3 (indirect image)
- Poesía, cine y humor : relatos de excepción en los años de autarquía, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2017, p. 181 (indirect image)
- Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, p. 92 (detall), p. 93, p. 94 (detall)
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