- Cat. no. P
- 743
Christophe Colomb (Christopher Columbus)
Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

Cat. no. P 743
Christopher Columbus
1958
Description
- Date:
- 1958
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 410.21 x 310.1 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower left corner: Gala Salvador Dali 1958
- Location:
- The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)
- Huntington Hartford, New York
- M. Knoedler and Co., New York
- Auctioned at Parke Bernet Gallery, New York, March 10th, 1971
- E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 153
- 2007, St. Petersburg, Fl., Salvador Dalí Museum, Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, 2-2-2007 - 24-6-2007, cat. no. 54
- Salvador Dalí, "Metamorphosis of Narcissus", Clockwatch Review, 31/12/1936, Hartland, Wi., p. 10
- Salvador Dalí, "Cristobal Colon descubre America", Vea y Lea, 03/04/1956, s. l., n. p. (detail)
- Tico Medina, "Dalí vestido de oro.", Gaceta Ilustrada, 12/12/1959, Madrid, n. p. (details)
- Sempronio, "Dalí descubre América", Ondas, 15/12/1959, Madrid, n. p. (detail) (indirect image)
- 100 aquarelles pour la Divine Comédie de Dante Alighieri par Salvador Dalí, Joseph Foret, Les Heures Claires, Paris, 1960, p. 58
- s. a., "Dali´s latest major...", Binghamton Press, 13/01/1960, Binghamton, NY, p. 2
- s. a., "New Dali "Nuclear-Metaphysical" Canvas Unveiled", New York Times, 13/01/1960, New York, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- s. a., "Dali Painting", American Artist, 31/03/1960, New York, n. p.
- s. a., "Last word in italian delicacies. other dishes - other palates", Italamerican, 31/03/1960, New York, p. 19 (indirect image) (detail)
- Desconegut, Salvador Dalí, "The Contraction of New York Museums", Esquire, 31/07/1960, [chicago, Ill.], p. 98
- Jaume Miravitlles, "¿Fue Cristobal Colón Catalán?", Hablemos, 09/10/1960, [new York], p. 9
- s. a., "Kultur. Malerei. Salvador Dalí", Der Spiegel, 28/12/1960, Hamburg, p. 4 (detail)
- Michel Sima, 24 perfiles de artistas, Vergara, Barcelona, 1961, p. 164 (indirect image) (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1961, n. p. (detail)
- Lola Aguado, "Los tres maestros españoles de la pintura mundial de hoy. ¿Quién es Dalí?", Gaceta Ilustrada, 03/02/1962, Madrid, n. p.
- Rafael Santos Torroella, "La otra verdad de Salvador Dalí", Revista de Gerona, 30/04/1963, Girona, p. 36 (indirect image)
- Huntington Hartford, Art or anarchy ?, Doubleday, New York, 1964, il. 20
- Ada Louise Huxtable, "Architecture: Huntington Harford's palatial Midtown Museum", New York Times, 25/02/1964, New York, N.y., n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- Daniel Colbert, "Art for Hart's sake", Columbia Spectator, 10/04/1964, New York, N.y., p. 5
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 124
- s. a., "["The discovery of..."] (il.)", Cosmopolitan, 30/06/1965, New York, N.y., n. p. (detail)
- Doris. Reno, "2 Camps: The Old Greats and Near-Greats", The Miami Herald, 05/09/1965, Miami, Fla., p. 6
- Emily Genauer, "400 Works by Dali Prove It: He's Great", New York Herald Tribune, 18/12/1965, New York, N.y., n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- Ruth Robinson, "Dali and his art attract throng to preview at Hartford Gallery", New York Times, 18/12/1965, New York, p. 34 (imatge indrecta)
- Pierre Cabanne, "Salvador Dali, ou la folie élevée à la hauteur d' un art", Lectures Pour Tous, 31/12/1965, Paris, n. p.
- Bernie Bookbinder, "On a bus to cultureville", Newsday, 21/02/1966, Garden City, N.y., n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- Tony Mockler, "The pattern of Salvador", Times, 09/10/1966, St. Petersburg, Fla., p. 11
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 103, il. 112 (detail)
- s. a., "Dada, Surrealism", Md, 11/11/1968, New York, n. p.
- s. a., "Dali le fantastique", Marie France, 31/12/1968, Paris, p. 108
- Carlton Lake, In quest of Dali, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1969, n. p.
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [París], 1970, p. 69 (detail)
- s. a., "Dali Museum Unlawful", Times, 27/09/1970, St. Petersburg, Fla., n. p. (detail)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dalí, the masterworks, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland, 1971, p. 21, p. 43 (indirect image), p. 55
- José Angelo Gaiarsa, Respiraçao e imaginaçao, Jose Angelo Gaiarsa, Sao Paulo, 1971, p. 80 (detail)
- Geraldine Keen, "Record New York prices for Impressionist art", The Times, 12/03/1971, London, n. p. (detail)
- Christopher Finch, "Dali today: Dancing girls and DNA", Auction, 31/05/1971, New York, p. 25
- Salvador Dalí, "Sonnet to the pupils of Velazquez' eyes Gala of my eyes", Clockwatch Review, 31/12/1972, Hartland, Wi., p. 10
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 183, p. 185 (indirect image), p. 194, p. 195 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : a guide to his works in public museums, The Dalí Museum, Cleveland [Ohio], 1973, p. [86]
- A. Reynolds Morse, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí : a preliminary study in their similarities and contrast, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland [Ohio], 1973, p. 18
- s. a., "[Limited Edition Gallery Proudly announces the opening of two new galleries in Beverly Hills and Northridge] [anunci]", Los Angeles Times, 07/10/1973, Los Angeles, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 183, p. 116 (detail), p. 117 (detail), p. 114, p. 115 (detail), p. 218 (indirect image), p. 195 (detail), p. 194, p. 185 (indirect image)
- Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974, il. 71 (detail), il. 72 (detail), il. 73 (detail), il. 74
- Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, il. 58, p. 116
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Madrid, Barcelona, 1975, p. 271
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Dalí, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1977, p. 137, p. 138 (detail), p. 139 (detail), p. 140 (detail), p. 141 (detail), p. 251
- s. a., "Le grand Dali et la petite folle [Coberta]", Dialogues Homophiles, 31/10/1977, Paris, p. 10 (detail), p. 11 (detail)
- Robert Descharnes, S. Terayama, Dalí: the book of great masters, Zauho, Tokyo, 1978, il. 13, p. 131 (indirect image), p. 157 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí, René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Filipacchi, Paris, 1978, p. 55
- Salvador Dalí, selected works, Filipacchi, New York, 1979, p. 55
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 387
- Antonio Pelayo, "Dalí "loco inmortal" (coberta)", Seis y Siete, 26/05/1979, s. l., p. 5 (detail)
- Joaquín Soler Serrano, "Joaquín Soler Serrano presenta "Mis personajes favoritos"", Tele Radio, 17/09/1979, Madrid, p. 117 (detail) (indirect image)
- Homage to Dalí, Chartwell Books, Secaucus, New Jersey, [1980], p. 22, p. 23 (detail)
- Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera, Salvador Dalí, Nauta, Barcelona, 1980, il. 28 (indirect image)
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 86
- Guglielmo Bernardi, "Salvador Dalí", Pan, 04/1981, Offenburgh, p. 15
- Dalí : Salvador Dali Museum, Salvador Dalí Foundation, St. Petersburg, Florida, [1982], n. p.
- Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 183
- Clarà, Dalí, Monturiol, Pla, Vayreda, Diputació Provincial de Girona, Nou Art Thor, Girona, Barcelona, 1983, p. 29
- Dalí fotògraf, Dalí en els seus fotògrafs, Centre Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, 1983, p. 71 (indirect image) (detail)
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 116
- Jaume Socias, Dalí, Nou Art, Barcelona, 1983, p. 29 (detail)
- Giullermo Diaz Plaja, "El regreso de Salvador Dalí", ABC, 15/04/1983, Madrid, p. 93
- Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 39, p. 91
- Dalí, vist per Meli, Fundación Gala-Dalí, [Figueres], 1985, n. p. (indirect image)
- Antonio D. Olano, Nacimiento, vida, pasión, muerte, resurrección y gloria de Salvador, Domingo, Felipe, Jacinto Dalí Doménech, Cusí y Farrés, Marqués de Dalí y Púbol, Dyrsa, Madrid, 1985, p. 304 (detail)
- Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 71(detail), il. 72 (detail), il. 73 (detail), il. 74
- Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 71 (detail), il. 72 (detail), il. 73 (detail), il. 74
- Sant Narcís, Dalí i les mosques, Mediterrània, Barcelona, 1986, p. 27, p. 28 (imatge directa)
- Meryle Secrest, Salvador Dalí, the surrealist jester, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1986, n. p. (indirect image)
- Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 51
- Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 145
- June Hurley Young, "The images of Salvador Dali", Tampa Bay Magazine, 31/10/1987, Tampa Bay, FL, p. 40
- Dalí scultore, Dalí illustratore, Generalitat de Catalunya, Città di Napoli, [Barcelona], Napoli, 1988, p. 63 (indirect image)
- Grands Peintres : Dalí, COGEDI-PRESSE, Paris, 1988, p. 12
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 499 (indirect image), XXII
- Michel Déon, Marie-France Saurat, "Dali, la saga du dernier geant du Surrealisme", Paris Match, 02/02/1989, Paris, n. p. (detail)
- Florida, El País, Aguilar, Madrid, 1990, p. 126 (indirect image), p. 127
- Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural/Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 45
- A. B. Tello, Salvador Dalí, Vilmar, Barcelona, 1990, p. 111 (detail)
- Juan Gyenes, Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Eudema, Madrid, 1990, p. 155 (imatge indirecta + detall)
- René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 99
- Dalí: the Salvador Dalí museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston. Toronto. London, 1991, dustjacket, il. 90
- Eric Shanes, Dalí, Debate, Madrid, 1991, p. 135
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 180
- Josep Playà i Maset, Dalí de l'Empordà, Labor, Barcelona, 1992, p. 54 (indirect image)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 209
- Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Antártida, Barcelona, 1993, n. p. (detail)
- André Bouguenec, Salvador Dalí : philosophe et esotériste incompris, Opéra, Nantes, 1994, p. XIX
- Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 120
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 245
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 510
- David Carter, Salvador Dalí, Chelsea House, New York - Philadelphia, 1995, p. 71
- Dominique Bona, Gala, Flammarion, [París], 1995, n. p.
- El Genio de Salvador Dalí, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, 1996, p. 69 (indirect image)
- Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 123
- Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Evergreen (Benedikt Taschen), [Köln], 1996, p. 82
- Kenneth Wach, Salvador Dalí : masterpieces from the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Harry N. Abrams, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, New York, 1996, p. 105, p. 119 (matge indirecta), p. 120 (indirect image)
- Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, il. XXXVII
- Robert Radford, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1997, p. 271
- Dalí monumental, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, 1998, p. 176 (imatge indrecta) (detail)
- Salvador Dalí en el Teatre-Museu Dalí y otras colecciones, Folio, Barcelona, 1998, p. 24 (detail)
- Grace Megwinoff Andréu, Dalí: Salvador de la pintura, Grace Megwinoff Andréu, San Juan (Puerto Rico), 1998, cover (detail)
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Fèlix Fanés, Salvador Dalí. Àlbum de família, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació La Caixa, [Barcelona], [Figueres], 1998, p. 45 (indirect image)
- Robert Goff, The Essential Salvador Dalí, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998, p. 100
- Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 150-151 (detail), p. 153 (detail)
- El Surrealisme, Dalí i les falles, Associació Cultural Falla L'Antiga de Campanar, [València], 2000, p. 58 (indirect image)
- Warum tut das Loch in meiner Hand nicht weh?, Tympano, München, 2000, p. 65
- Robert S. Lubar, The Salvador Dalí Museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston - New York - London, 2000, p. 146
- Alberto Mario Perrone, Salvador Dalí, escándalo, transgresión y genio, Longseller, Buenos Aires, 2001, p. 57, p. 149 (detail)
- Marco Di Capua, Salvador Dalí : la vita e l'opera, Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2002, p. 245
- Dalí a l'Empordà : la mirada dels fotògrafs empordanesos, Amics dels Museus Dalí, Figueres, 2003, p. 51 (indirect image)
- Dalí íntim : el treball, les festes i les relacions humanes vist per Joan Vehí, Museu de Cadaqués, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2003, p. 15 (indirect image), p. 60 (indirect image)
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 324-325
- Os dalís de Dalí, Fundación Caixa Galicia, [A Coruña], 2003, p. 127 (indirect image)
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 324-325
- Annette Vezin, Luc Vezin, The 20th-century muse, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2003, p. [109] (detail)
- Lluís Llongueras, Todo Dalí : vida y obra del personaje más genial y espectacular del siglo XX, Generalitat de Catalunya, [Barcelona], 2003, p. LXXXIV
- Montse Gisbert, Salvador Dalí, pinta'm un somni, Serres, Barcelona, 2003, n. p.
- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 161
- William Jeffett, Joan Fontcuberta, Imaginary gardens : mapping Dalí's landscapes, Salvador Dalí Museum exhibition series, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2003, p. 42
- Xavier Barral i Altet, Les Indigestions de Dalí, Edicions de 1984, Barcelona, 2003, p. 130
- Dalí íntim, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2004, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2004, p. 243, p. 256 (indirect image), p. 294 (indirect image)
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 146 (detail), p. 191 (detail)
- Enric Bou, Daliccionario : objetos, mitos y símbolos de Salvador Dalí, Tusquets, Barcelona, 2004, p. 33
- Jean-Christophe Argillet, Le Siècle de Dali, Timée-Editions, Boulogne, 2004, p. 40 (detail), p. 41 (indirect image)
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, p. 117, 117 (detail)
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, Paris, 2004, p. 117
- Marina García, Dalí per a nens, Albur, Barcelona, 2004, p. 7, p. 13
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 523 (indirect image), 524 (indirect image), p. 525 (indirect image)
- Pollock to Pop : America's brush with Dalí, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 34
- Lucía García de Carpi, Salvador Dalí, Ambos Mundos, Salamanca, 2005, p. 121, p. 132 (detail)
- Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2006, p. 42 (detail), p. 79
- Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 58 (indirect image)
- Torsten Otte, Salvador Dalí : Eine Biographie mit Selbstzeugnissen des Künstlers, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2006, p. 106
- Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, [Madrid], [Figueres], London, 2007, p. 243, p. 256 (indirect image), p. 294 (indirect image)
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 117
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Estrella de Diego, Gala. Àlbum, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2007, il. 116 (indirect image)
- The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, p. 49
- Alessandro Del Puppo, Dalí et le surréalisme, E-ducation.it S.p.A, Florence, 2008, p. 89
- Mª Mercè Riera i Arnijas, Dalí, Ciro, [Barcelona], 2008, p. 121, p. 142
- Dalí al Castell de Figueres vist per Joan Vehí, Ajuntament de Figueres, Consorci Castell de Sant Ferran, Figueres, 2010, p. 25, p. 90 (indirect images)
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 44
- Brassaï, Omaggio a Dalí, Abscondita, Milano, 2010, p. 111 (indirect image) (detail)
- Dalí, Cadaqués. Un vincle captat per Joan Vehí, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2012, p. 115 (indirect image) (detail), p. 116-117 (indirect image) (detail)
- Dominique Bona, Gala, Flammarion, [París], 2012, n. p. (detail)
- Roger Michel Erasmy, Visions d'un monde nouveau, Roger Michel Erasmy, [S.l.], 2012, p. 9
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 3 (detail), p. 73
- Gabriel Montua, Dalís 20. Jahrhundert : die westliche Kunst zwischen Politik, Markt und Medien, De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, 2015, il. XL
- Fabio García Saleh, Revelaciones ocultas : las enseñanzas secretas de Néstor y Dalí, Obelisco, Barcelona, 2016, p. 172 (detail)
- Rem Koolhaas, Delirio de Nueva York : un manifiesto retroactivo para Manhattan, Gustavo-Gili, Barcelona, 2016, p. 244
- Dalí Pitxot : une amitié au cœur du surréalisme, Marot, Musée de Beaux -Arts, Tournai, [S.l.], 2017, p. 118 (indirect image) (detail)
- Estrella de Diego, Gala Salvador Dalí : una habitació pròpia a Púbol, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2018, p. 102
The copyright on Salvador Dalí's works, included those that are reproduced in this Web page, is held by the Spanish State and has been granted in exclusivity to the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí.
Pursuant to intellectual property laws in force, the total or partial reproduction, distribution, transformation, public communication, interactively making available to the public, as well as any other exploitation, by any means, of the works included in this Web page is prohibited.
Any exploitation of Salvador Dalí's works is subject to the prior application and clearance of the relevant licence issued by VEGAP (tel. 91 532 66 32 and 93 201 03 31 ; www.vegap.es). Copyright infringement will be prosecuted according to Laws.