- Cat. no. P
- 475
The enigma of Hitler

Cat. no. P 475
The enigma of Hitler
1939
Description
- Date:
- 1939
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 95 x 141 cm
- Signature:
- Signed on the front, lower middle: Gala Salvador Dali 1939
- Location:
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Dalí bequest
- Artist's colletion
- 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21-3-1939 - 18-4-1939, cat. no. 3
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 85
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14-5-1980 - 29-6-1980, cat. no. 160
- 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10-6-1983 - 31-7-1983, cat. no. 162
- 1984, Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, I Dalì di Salvador Dalì, 1-7-1984 - 30-9-1984, cat. no. 19
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16-12-1989 - 11-3-1990, cat. no. 40
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27-4-1990 - 29-7-1990, cat. no. 56
- 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21-10-1998 - 31-1-1999, cat. no. 38
- 1999, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 5-3-1999 - 24-5-1999, cat. no. 38
- 1999, Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, 20-12-1999 - 28-2-2000, cat. no. 183
- 2002, París, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 6-3-2002 - 24-6-2002, no reference
- 2002, North Miami, Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, 14-3-2002 - 30-6-2002, cat. no. 183
- 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 5-2-2004 - 23-5-2004, cat. no. 13
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12-9-2004 - 16-1-2005, cat. no. 186
- 2012, París, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21-11-2012 - 25-3-2013, p. 241
- 2013, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Dalí. Todas las sugestiones poéticas y todas las posibilidades plásticas, 27-4-2013 - 2-9-2013, p. 241
- 2016, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Campo cerrado. Arte y poder en la posguerra española, 1939-1953, 26-4-2016 - 26-9-2016, no reference
- Louis Cheronnet, "Salvador Dali", Marianne, 15/02/1939, Paris, p. 11
- s. a., "New Yorkers Stand in Line To See His Six-in-One Surrealist Painting", Life, 17/04/1939, New York, p. 44
- Winthrop Sargeant, "Dali", Life, 24/09/1945, [chicago], p. 65
- A. Oriol Anguera, Mentira y verdad de Salvador Dalí, Cobalto, Barcelona, 1948, p. XXXIII
- s. a., "Admits his previous work omitted spiritual beliefs", Globe Eve., 25/11/1949, Boston, Mass., n. p. (detail)
- Saraiva Mendes, "O primeiro Museu da Peninsula a possuir um quadro de Salvador Dali e um Museu portugues-o do Caramulo", A Flama, 21/10/1955, [lisboa], n. p. (detail)
- Loretta Mclaughlin, "Baby's dreams help its growth", Herald, 08/05/1966, Boston, Mass., n. p. (detail)
- s. a., "He's A Shocking Artist", Beacon Journal, 07/05/1967, Akron, Ohio, n. p. (detail)
- s. a., "Voice of Broadway", Sentinel, 27/09/1967, Pomeroy, Ohio, p. 151
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 241 (detail)
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 166 (detail)
- Poetic homage to Gala-Salvador Dalí, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland, 1973, p. 55
- A. Reynolds Morse, Eleanor R. Morse, The Dalí adventure : 1943-1973, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, [1973], il. 4
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 166 (detail)
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Madrid, Barcelona, 1975, p. 194 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 314
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 160
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 99
- Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 116
- 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 125
- Distribucions d'art surrealista, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Barcelona, 1983, p. 9
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 76
- Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 20, p. 87
- I Dalì di Salvador Dalì, Gianni Tassinari, Ferrara, 1984, p. 127
- Salvador Dalí, The Tragic myth of Millet's Angelus, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 1986, p. 196
- Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 75
- Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 131
- Louisiana revy, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 52 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 256, p. 488 (indirect image)
- Guillermo Carnero, Las Armas abisinias, Anthropos, Barcelona, 1989, il. XXX
- Maria Lluïsa Borràs, "La fascinación de la pintura de Dalí", LA VANGUARDIA, 29/01/1989, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 107
- A. B. Tello, Salvador Dalí, Vilmar, Barcelona, 1990, p. 81
- René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 74
- s. a., "Dalí visto por Bataille", Atlántica, 31/10/1990, Vigo, p. 30 (detail)
- Dalí exhibition, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1991, p. 27 (detail)
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 112, p. 120 (indirect image)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 16 (2 details)
- Jaime Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Anaya, Madrid, 1993, p. 74
- Meredith Etherington-Smith, The Persistence of memory : a biography of Dalí, Random House, New York, 1993, n. p. (indirect image)
- Mike Venezia, Salvador Dalí, Children Press, Chicago, 1993, p. 29
- Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 50
- Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 50
- Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 84-85
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 198
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 316
- Face à l'histoire, 1933-1996 : l'artiste moderne devant l'événement historique, Flammarion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1996, p. 183
- New history of world art, Shogakukan, [S.l.], 1996, il. 79
- Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 96
- Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Evergreen (Benedikt Taschen), [Köln], 1996, p. 39
- Robert Radford, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1997, p. 192-193
- Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 122-123
- Memòria dels somnis: Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Govern d'Andorra. Ministeri de Turisme i Cultura, [Andorra de la Vella], 1999, p. 23 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació La Caixa, Figueres, Barcelona, 1999, p. 190
- Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 106 - 107
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Electa, Madrid, 1999, p. 38
- Mª Teresa Jiménez Priego, Dalí, joyero del siglo XX, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, 1999, p. 57
- Memoria de los sueños : Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, MUVIM (Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i la Modernitat), València, 2001, p. 33 (indirect image)
- Alberto Mario Perrone, Salvador Dalí, escándalo, transgresión y genio, Longseller, Buenos Aires, 2001, p. 46 (detail)
- René Passeron, Surrealism, Finest, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 2001, p. 125
- La Révolution surréaliste, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2002, p. 301
- Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació La Caixa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Figueres, Miami, Barcelona, 2002, p. 190
- Surrealismus 1919 - 1944 : Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, Düsseldorf, 2002, p. 311
- Ingrid Schaffner, Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus : the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2002, p. 56 (indirect image), p. 58 (indirect image)
- Joan Castellar-Gassol, Dalí : una vida perversa, Edicions de 1984, Barcelona, 2002, p. 85
- Robert Anderson, Salvador Dalí, Franklin Watts, London, Sydney, 2002, p. 33
- Dalí 1904-2004, Edicions 62, Barcelona, 2003, p. 110-111, p. 180 (indirect image)
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 215
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 215
- Javier Pérez Andújar, Salvador Dalí : a la conquista de lo irracional, Algaba, Madrid, 2003, n. p.(detall i imatge indirecta)
- Lluís Llongueras, Todo Dalí : vida y obra del personaje más genial y espectacular del siglo XX, Generalitat de Catalunya, [Barcelona], 2003, p. LXVII
- Mary McVey Gill, Brenda Webmann, Teresa Méndez-Faith, En contacto : lecturas intermedias, Heinle, Thomson Learning, Boston, 2003, p. XVI (detail), p. 177 (detail)
- Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, p. 61
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 496 (2 imatges indirectes), p. 305
- Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2004, p. 127
- Salvador Dalí i Federico García Lorca : la persistència de la memòria, Viena, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura., Barcelona, 2004, p. 138
- Alyse Gaultier, L'Abcdaire de Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 66-67 (detail)
- Alyse Gaultier, The Little book of Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 67 (detail)
- Jean-Christophe Argillet, Le Siècle de Dali, Timée-Editions, Boulogne, 2004, p. 28 (indirect image)
- Linde Salber, Salvador Dalí, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2004, p. 80
- Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Salvador Dalí : vida i obra d'un geni, Columna, Barcelona, 2004, n. p.
- Màrius Carol, Josep Playà i Maset, El Enigma Dalí, Plaza Janés, Barcelona, 2004, n. p.
- Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 68
- Dalí, Unidad Editorial, [S.l.], 2005, p. 151, p. 180
- It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, p. 100
- Salvador Dalí i les arts : historiografia i crítica al segle XXI, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2005, p. 24
- Surrealism USA, National Academy Museum, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany, New York, 2005, p. 24
- Lucía García de Carpi, Salvador Dalí, Ambos Mundos, Salamanca, 2005, p. 95, p. 131 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2006, p. 125
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Marc Aufraise, Dalí versus Schaal, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista (DAS), [Figueres], 2006, p. 15 (indirect image), p. 47 (indirect image), p. 50 (indirect image), p. 53 (indirect image)
- Robin Adèle Greeley, Surrealism and the Spanish civil war, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, p. 82
- Torsten Otte, Salvador Dalí : Eine Biographie mit Selbstzeugnissen des Künstlers, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2006, p. 75
- Salvador Dalí - Surrealisti! = Salvador Dalí - Surrealist!, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Espoo, Figueres, 2007, p. 222 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, [Madrid], [Figueres], London, 2007, p. 127
- Salvador Dalí à la croisée des savoirs, Desjonquères, Paris, 2007, p. 125
- Mª Mercè Riera i Arnijas, Dalí, Ciro, [Barcelona], 2008, p. 99, p. 139
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 121
- In the presence of things : four centuries of European still-life painting, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, [lisboa], 2011, p. 216
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. 143
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 240 (indirect image), p. 241
- Dalí i els seus tallers, Das Edicions, Figueres, 2013, p. 29
- Disney & Dalí : architects of the imagination, Disney, New York, Los Angeles, 2015, p. 58 (indirect image)
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 46
- Gabriel Montua, Dalís 20. Jahrhundert : die westliche Kunst zwischen Politik, Markt und Medien, De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, 2015, p. 140
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