Automatic Beginning of a Portrait of Gala

• Artist's colletion

• According to the photograph provided by Corbis (image 2), the paintings Automatic Beginning of a Portrait of Gala (cat. no. {309}) and Portrait of Gala with Lobster (cat. no. {330}) were both part of a larger plywood panel. We guess Dalí exhibited the painting in their original form at the show held at the Pierre Colle Gallery in Paris from June 19th to 29th, 1933 (cat. no. 7) with the title Début automatique des portraits de Gala (Automatic Beginning of the Portraits of Gala).

• 1933, París, Pierre Colle, Exposition Salvador Dali, 19-6-1933 - 29-6-1933, cat. no. 7
• 1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, 1-6-1936 - 31-7-1936, cat. no. 13
• 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. 11a
• 1943, New York, Galleries of M. Knoedler, Dalí, 14-4-1943 - 5-5-1943, cat. no. 7b
• 1954, Roma, Sale dell'Aurora Pallavicini, Mostra di quadri disegni ed oreficerie di Salvador Dalí, 13-3-1954 - 30-6-1954, cat. no. 20
• 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 40
• 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10-6-1983 - 31-7-1983, cat. no. 142

• Salvador Dalí, La Conquête de l'irrationnel, Éditions Surréalistes, Paris, 1935, il. 15
• Souvenir - Catalogue, Julien Levy Gallery, [new York], [1936/37], n. p.
• Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, frontispice (detail) (indirect image)
• Alexander Watt, "Paris commentary", The Studio, 30/11/1951, London, p. 157
• Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 36
• Dali par Dali, Draeger, [París], 1970, p. 82-83 (detail)
• s. a., "Imporatante donación de Dalí para el fondo de su museo de Figueras", Los Sitios, 29/06/1977, Girona, p. 12
• Janus, "Dali e i suoi fantasmi", Harper's Bazaar, 12/1981, Milano, n. p. (detail)
• 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 101
• Distribucions d'art surrealista, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Barcelona, 1983, p. 20
• Francisco Nieva, "El príncipe representó a dalí", Pueblo, 16/04/1983, Madrid, p. 35 (indirect image)
• Salvador Dalí, Louis Pauwels, The Passions according to Dalí, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg [Florida], 1985, p. 22
• Mario Geymonat, I Miti straordinari di Ovidio, Ghisetti e Corvi, Milano, 1987, p. 65
• Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 148
• (Mini guia Teatre-Museu Dalí), Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 1990, p. [12]
• Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 56 (detail)
• Meredith Etherington-Smith, The Persistence of memory : a biography of Dalí, Random House, New York, 1993, n. p. (indirect image)
• José Luis Giménez-Frontín, Teatre-Museu Dalí, Tusquets/Electa, [Barcelona], Madrid, 1994, p. 39
• Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 193
• David Carter, Salvador Dalí, Chelsea House, New York - Philadelphia, 1995, p. 51 (indirect image)
• De la palette à l'écritoire, Joca Seria, Nantes, 1997, p. 182 (indirect image)
• Masterpieces of surrealism, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 6 (indirect image)
• Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 113
• The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 113
• Martí de Riquer, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Estudios : El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, Planeta, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, [Barcelona], 2003, p. 167 (indirect image)
• Montse Gisbert, Salvador Dalí, pinta'm un somni, Serres, Barcelona, 2003, n. p.
• Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 72
• Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Textos autobiográficos 1, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2003, p. 223 (indirect image) (detail)
• Sebastià Roig, Jordi Puig, Dalí : el triangle de l'Empordà, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Figueres, Menorca, 2003, p. 189
• Xavier Barral i Altet, Les Indigestions de Dalí, Edicions de 1984, Barcelona, 2003, p. 81
• Luis-Salvador López Herrero, La Cara oculta de Salvador Dalí, Síntesis, Madrid, 2004, p. 181
• Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí de Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Sant Lluís, Menorca, [Figueres], 2005, p. 103 (indirect image)
• Torsten Otte, Salvador Dalí : Eine Biographie mit Selbstzeugnissen des Künstlers, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2006, p. 49
• Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Estrella de Diego, Gala. Àlbum, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2007, il. 2, il. 75 (indirect image)
• 2011 : Memoria = Memòria, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2012, p. 127, p. 128 (detail)
• Dalí un artista un genio, Skira, Milano, 2012, p. 115
• Dalí i els seus tallers, Das Edicions, Figueres, 2013, p. 22-23 (indirect image)
• Dalí News, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2014, p. 13
• Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí. Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Sant Lluís, Menorca, [Figueres], 2016, p. 128-129 (indirect image)
• Estrella de Diego, Gala Salvador Dalí : una habitació pròpia a Púbol, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2018, p. 177

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  Cat. no. P 330

  Portrait of Gala with Lobster

  c. 1933

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