- Cat. no. P
- 456
Le sommeil (Sleep)

Cat. no. P 456
Sleep
c. 1937
Description
- Date:
- c. 1937
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 51 x 78 cm
- Signature:
- Unsigned and undated
- Location:
- Private collection
- Edward James
- Auctioned at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 30th, 1981
- 1938, París, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, January - February 1938, cat. no. 46
- 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21-3-1939 - 18-4-1939, cat. no. 19
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19-11-1941 - 11-1-1942, cat. no. 34
- 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. 34
- 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15-3-1943 - 12-4-1943, 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. 5
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 88
- 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21-11-1970 - 10-1-1971, cat. no. 54
- 1971, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dali Art-in-Jewels Exhibition & Paintings, 8-6-1971 - 10-7-1971, cat. no. 9
- 1972, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, July - September 1972, cat. no. 9
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14-5-1980 - 29-6-1980, cat. no. 155
- 1987, Genève, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève, Regards sur Minotaure : la revue à tête de bête, 17-10-1987 - 31-1-1988, cat. no. 119
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13-5-1989 - 23-7-1989, cat. no. 189
- 1993, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Surrealism : revolution by night, 12-3-1993 - 2-5-1993, cat. no. 45
- 1994, Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ¿Buñuel!, Auge des jahrhunderts, 4-2-1994 - 24-4-1994, p. 2
- 2002, Londres, Royal Academy of Arts, Paris: capital of the arts 1900-1968, 26-1-2002 - 16-4-2002, cat. no. 144
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12-9-2004 - 16-1-2005, cat. no. 168
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 1-6-2007 - 9-9-2007, il. 45
- Pierre Mabille / Salvador Dalí (il.), Paul Éluard, [Sumari]|La conscience lumineuse|Premières vues annciennes|Le Surréalisme autour du monde (anunci)|[Dernières Publications Surréalistes] (anunci), Albert Skira, Paris, 1937, p. 26
- Pierre Mabille, "La conscience lumineuse", Minotaure, 21/12/1937, Paris, n. p.
- s. a., "Senor Dali, who "hates simplicity", paints phantasmagorias to prove it", Florence Morning News, 16/04/1939, Florence, SC, p. 6 (detail)
- s. a., "New Yorkers Stand in Line To See His Six-in-One Surrealist Painting", Life, 17/04/1939, New York, p. 44
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 62
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, p. IV
- Catherine Ann Tukey, "Salvadore Dali: 'against mechanism for the dream'", World Morn., 02/05/1943, Omaha, Neb., n. p. (detail)
- Barreira, "Con Salvador Dalí en Madrid", Triunfo, 15/12/1948, Madrid, n. p. (detail)
- Dieter Wyss, Der Surrealismus: Eine Eiunführung und Deutung surrealistischer Literatur und Malerei, Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg, 1950, il. 4
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. III
- Fleur Cowles, The Case of Salvador Dalí, Little, Brown, Boston, Toronto, 1959, between pp. 240-241
- Dalí [An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Salvador Dalí], Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood Boulevard, 1964., n. p.
- s. a., "Barnsdall art gallery plans Dali showing", Times, 18/11/1964, Los Angeles, Calif., n. p. (indirect image)
- Henry J. Seldis, "The Weird World of Dali on View at Barnsdall Park", Los Angeles Times, 29/11/1964, Los Angeles, n. p. (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 71
- Bowden Broadwater, "A Full House of Dali at Modern Art Gallery", Newsday, 22/12/1965, Garden City, N.y., n. p. (indirect image)
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 138 (detail)
- "« Sommeil » (1939) : une...", 17/12/1969, Les Andelys, n. p. (detail)
- Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 54
- Guy Brett, "Salvador Dali: the enjoyment of artificiality", The Times, 02/12/1970, London, n. p. (detail)
- Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 127
- Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1972, p. 13
- A. Reynolds Morse, Eleanor R. Morse, The Dalí adventure : 1943-1973, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, [1973], il. 3
- José Pierre, Dictionnaire de poche : le Surréalisme, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1973, p. 48
- Painters of fantasy : from Hieronymus Bosch to Salvador Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1974, p. 73
- Max. Gérard, Dalí... Dalí... Dalí..., Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974, il. 68
- William Gaunt, Los Surrealistas, Labor, Barcelona [etc.], 1974, p. 167
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Madrid, Barcelona, 1975, p. 101
- Dalí, Gesemtverband des deutschen Steinkohlenbergbaus, Essen, 1977, il. 3
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Dalí, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1977, p. 83 (detail), p. 248 (detail)
- Antonio Fernández Molina, Dalí, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Servicio de Publicaciones, [Pamplona], 1978, p. 61-62
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 307
- DALI, The Tate Gallery, [London], 1980, il. 17
- Hommage à Dalí, Vilo, Paris, 1980, p. 13
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 155
- Salvador Dalí : Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Skulpturen, Rudolf A. Hüngerle, Heidelberg, 1981, p. 173
- Twenty-eight works from the Edward James collection, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1981, cover, p. 30
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 79
- s. a., "Dali'nin bilinmeyen yapitlari satisa çikariliyor", Sanat Dergisi, 15/03/1981, Istambul, p. 32 (detail)
- Geraldine Norman, "Dalí painting record for a living artist", The Times, 31/03/1981, London, p. (indirect image) (detail)
- J. I. De M., "Lluvia de millones para Salvador Dalí", Diario de Barcelona, 01/04/1981, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
- s. a., "Un cuadro de Dalí rompe todos los "records" en Londres", El Correo Catalán, 01/04/1981, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
- Guglielmo Bernardi, "Salvador Dalí", Pan, 04/1981, Offenburgh, p. 9 (detail)
- Lode Seghers, "Mercado de las artes en el extranjero", Goya, 31/07/1981, Madrid, p. 55 (detail)
- El Surrealismo, Cátedra, Madrid, 1983, p. [165]
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1983, p. 56-57
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 56-57
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 75
- Rudolf Rom, Salvador Dalí, the surrealistic angel, Lorenzo & di Salvo, San Francisco, 1985, p. 178-179 (detail)
- Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 69
- Regards sur Minotaure : la revue à tête de bête, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève, Genève, 1987, p. 120
- Robert Lebel, Michel Sanouillet, Patrick Waldberg, Der Surrealismus : Dadaismus und metaphysische Malerei, Taschen, Köln, 1987, p. 204-205
- Simon Wilson, La Peinture surréaliste, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1987, il.28
- Monic Amstad, "Edward James, Poet, Surrealist, Exzentriker", Du, 31/12/1987, Zürich, Suïssa, p. 47 (indirect image)
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Buñuel, Lorca y Dalí: el enigma sin fin, Planeta, Barcelona, 1988, p. 280, p. 281 (detail)
- Salvador Dali, 1904 - 1989, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 1989, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 237
- Salvador Dalí, fusioni veronesi, Arsenale, [Verona], 1989, p. 26 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Meisterwerke der dreissiger Jahre, Schirmer-Mosel, München, 1989, il. 29
- Michel Déon, Marie-France Saurat, "Dali, la saga du dernier geant du Surrealisme", Paris Match, 02/02/1989, Paris, p. 76 (detail)
- A. B. Tello, Salvador Dalí, Vilmar, Barcelona, 1990, p. 67
- René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 70
- Eric Shanes, Dalí, Debate, Madrid, 1991, p. 89
- Alessandr Rogin, [Salvador Dalí : el mite i la realitat], Republica, Moscou, 1992, p. 95 (detail)
- Surrealism : revolution by night, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1993, p. 58-59
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 70 (2 details)
- Jaime Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Anaya, Madrid, 1993, p. 69
- ¿Buñuel!, Auge des Jahrhunderts, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1994, frontispiece
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 192
- Nathaniel Harris, The Life and works of Dalí, Parragon, [Regne Unit], 1994, p. 50-51
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 291
- Sarane Alexandrian, Surrealist art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1995, p. 103
- Dalí. Arquitectura, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, [Barcelona], [Figueres], 1996, p. 200
- Surrealismo, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1996, p. [41]
- Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 93, cover
- Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Evergreen (Benedikt Taschen), [Köln], 1996, p. 46
- Robert Radford, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1997, p. 178-179
- A surreal life: Edward James, 1907-1984, Royal Pavillion, Librairies & Museums, Brighton & Hove, Philip Wilson, London, 1998, p. 75 (indirect image)
- Robert Goff, The Essential Salvador Dalí, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998, cover (detail), p. 81
- Dali exhibition 1999, NTV Europe B.V., [S.l.], 1999, p. 21 (detail)
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Electa, Madrid, 1999, p. 48-49
- Grandes maestros de la pintura : Dalí, Altaya, Barcelona, 2001, p. 17
- Antoni Gaudí Salvador Dalí, Loft, Barcelona, 2002, p. 48, p. 75
- Paris: capital of the arts 1900-1968, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002, p. 220, p. 221
- Joan Castellar-Gassol, Dalí : una vida perversa, Edicions de 1984, Barcelona, 2002, p. III
- Artcurial : collection Perrot Moore, Artcurial : Briest - Poulain - Le Fur, Paris, 2003, p. 158
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 196-197
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 196-197
- Laia Rosa Armengol, Dalí, icono y personaje, Cátedra, Madrid, 2003, p. 111
- Lluís Llongueras, Todo Dalí : vida y obra del personaje más genial y espectacular del siglo XX, Generalitat de Catalunya, [Barcelona], 2003, p. LXVII
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- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 140
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Textos autobiogràfics 1, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, [Figueres], Barcelona, 2003, n. p. (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Textos autobiográficos 1, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2003, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- Dalí, un creador dissident, Destino, Barcelona, 2004, p. 77
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 273
- Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2004, p. 122
- Alyse Gaultier, L'Abcdaire de Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 102
- Marina García, Dalí per a nens, Albur, Barcelona, 2004, p. 4
- Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 49
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- Dalí, Unidad Editorial, [S.l.], 2005, p. 147
- Alice Mahon, Surrealism and the politics of Eros, 1938-1968, Thames & Hudson, London, 2005, p. 59
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Artículos, 1919-1986, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2005, p. 460
- Federico Fernández Díez, Goya y Dalí : del capricho al disparate, Diaz de Santos, Madrid, 2006, p. 51
- Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 8
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 81
- Dalís medienspiele: falsche fährten und paranoische selbstinszenierungen in den künsten, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2007, p. 111
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- Salvador Dalí à la croisée des savoirs, Desjonquères, Paris, 2007, p. 208 (indirect image) (detail)
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 87
- Angela Wenzel, The Mad, mad, mad world of Salvador Dali, Prestel, Munich, 2007, p. 4-5
- The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, p. 11 (indirect image)
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 31
- Le Surrealisme c'est moi!, Kunsthalle, Wien, 2011, p. 15
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. 266
- Dalí un artista un genio, Skira, Milano, 2012, p. 55 i detall
- Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 34 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, 2014, p. 130
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 38 (detail), p. 43
- A surreal legacy. Selected works of art from the Edward James Foundation, Christie's, London, 2016, p. 10 (indirect image)
- Ricard Mas, Dalí i Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2017, p. 132 (imatge indirecta) (detall)
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