- Cat. no. P
- 248
The Font
Cat. no. P 248
The Font
1930
Description
- Date:
- 1930
- Technique:
- Oil and collage on board
- Dimensions:
- 66 x 41 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated center on panel of box: Salvador Dali 1930
- Location:
- The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)
- Edward Wassermann, New York
- Julien Levy Gallery, New York
- E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)
- 1933, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Salvador Dalí, 21-11-1933 - 8-12-1933, cat. no. 24
- 1936, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic art dada surrealism, 9-12-1936 - 17-1-1937, cat. no. 311
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19-11-1941 - 11-1-1942, cat. no. 7
- 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. 7
- 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15-3-1943 - 12-4-1943, no reference
- 1947, Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí, an exhibition, 8-10-1947 - 9-11-1947, cat. no. 2
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 32
- 1994, London, Hayward Gallery, Salvador Dalí: the early years, 3-3-1994 - 30-5-1994, cat. no. 118
- 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Dali Monumental, 25-3-1998 - 27-5-1998, il. 20
- 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21-10-1998 - 31-1-1999, cat. no. 7
- 1999, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Dali exhibition 1999, 12-6-1999 - 20-8-1999, cat. no. 17
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12-9-2004 - 16-1-2005, cat. no. 81
- 2007, St. Petersburg, Fl., Salvador Dalí Museum, Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, 2-2-2007 - 24-6-2007, cat. no. 8
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 1-6-2007 - 9-9-2007, il. 75
- 2010, Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Salvador Dalí: The late work, 7-7-2010 - 9-2-2011, cat. no. 3
- Jr. Alfred H. Barr, Fantastic Art Dada Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936, il. 311
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 37
- Reynolds A. Morse, "The Dream World of Salvador Dali", Art In America, 31/07/1945, New York, N.y., il. 1
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 11
- Salvador Dalí, The IMS Press, Cleveland [Ohio], 1954, p. 45
- Dalí, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1957, p. 4 (detail)
- [A. Reynolds Morse], A new introduction to Salvador Dalí, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland [Ohio], 1959, p. 70
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 43
- Robert Lebel, L'Arte moderna : metafisica, dada, surrealismo, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano, 1967, p. 256
- Robert Lebel, "Il surrealismo: Tanguy, Dalí, Brauner, Dominguez e altri", L'Arte Moderna, 31/12/1967, Milano, p. 256
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 161
- A. Reynolds Morse, A Dalí primer, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland [Ohio], 1970, p. 14
- 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
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 150
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 52, p. 150
- Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974, il. 11 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Filipacchi, Paris, 1978, p. 26
- Salvador Dalí, selected works, Filipacchi, New York, 1979, p. 26
- Jordan R. Young, "Salvador Dali, a divina paranóia", Arte Hoje, 31/07/1979, Rio de Janeiro, p. 16
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1983, p. 8
- Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 11
- Surrealist drawings, The Salvador Dalí Foundation, St. Petersburg [Florida], 1988, n. p.
- Dalí: the Salvador Dalí museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston. Toronto. London, 1991, il. 36
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 164 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí: the early years, South Bank Centre, [London], 1994, p. 190
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 107
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 152
- Haim Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, p. 105
- Dalí monumental, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, 1998, p. 32
- Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 42 (detail), p. 49
- Dali exhibition 1999, NTV Europe B.V., [S.l.], 1999, p. 18 (detail), p. 75
- Fèlix Fanés, El Gran masturbador, Electa, Madrid, 2000, p. 46
- Robert S. Lubar, The Salvador Dalí Museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston - New York - London, 2000, p. 59
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Salvador Dalí : désirs inassouvis du purisme au surréalisme, 1925-1935, La Passage, Paris-New York, 2002, p. 143 (3 details)
- Juan Antonio Ramírez, Dalí: lo crudo y lo podrido, A. Machado Libros, Madrid, 2002, p. 105
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 97
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 97
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 143
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 21 (detail)
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, p. 65
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, Paris, 2004, p. 65
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí the impresario of surrealism, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, p. 65
- Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2006, p. 17
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 129
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 60
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. 112
- Roger Rothman, Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small, University of Nebraska, Lincoln & London, 2012, p. 96
- Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 6 (indirect image)
- David Lomas, Simulating the marvellous : psychology - surrealism - postmodernism, Manchester University Press, Manchester, New York, 2013, p. 112
- Disney & Dalí : architects of the imagination, Disney, New York, Los Angeles, 2015, p. 63
- Clyde Butcher: visions of Dali's Spain, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2018, p. 46
- Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, p. 100
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