- Cat. no. P
- 606
Uranium and Atomica Melancholica Idyll

Cat. no. P 606
Uranium and Atomica Melancholica Idyll
1945
Description
- Date:
- 1945
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 66.5 x 86.5 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower left corner: GALA SALVADOR DALI 1945
- Inscriptions:
- Inscribed lower left: ATOMICA MELANCOLICA
- Location:
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Dalí bequest
- Artist's colletion
- 1945, New York, Bignou Gallery, Recent paintings by Salvador Dali, 20-11-1945 - 29-12-1945, cat. no. 9
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 114
- 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15-4-1983 - 29-5-1983, cat. no. 209
- 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10-6-1983 - 31-7-1983, cat. no. 209
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16-12-1989 - 11-3-1990, cat. no. 47
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27-4-1990 - 29-7-1990, cat. no. 67
- 1990, México, D. F., Centro Cultural / Arte contemporáneo, Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1-11-1990 - 31-1-1991, cat. no. 24
- 1997, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Exiles + emigrés : the flights of european artists from Hitler, 23-2-1997 - 11-4-1997, cat. no. 31
- 1999, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Dali exhibition 1999, 12-6-1999 - 20-8-1999, cat. no. 45
- 2001, Segovia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Dalí en las colecciones españolas, 9-10-2001 - 6-1-2002, cat. no. 23
- 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 5-2-2004 - 23-5-2004, cat. no. 15
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 1-6-2007 - 9-9-2007, il. 130
- 2010, Milano, Palazzo Reale, Salvador Dalí, il sogno si avvicina, 22-9-2010 - 30-1-2011, no reference
- 2012, París, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21-11-2012 - 25-3-2013, p. 244
- 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. 244
- p. 11 (indirect image)
- p. 21 (imatge indirecta)
- Salvador Dalí, "Dali Triumphs in Apotheose of Homerus", Dali News, 20/11/1945, New York, N.y., p. 1 (detail)
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946, p. 81
- Stanley Meltzoff, "David Smith and social surrealism", Magazine Of Art, 31/03/1946, Washington, D.c., p. 99 (detail)
- Manuel del Arco, Salvador Dalí, Dalí al desnudo, José Janés, Barcelona, 1952, n. p.
- s. a., "[Dali's folly...], (il.)", News-journal, 30/09/1962, Hansfield, Ohio, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 103
- Justin Douglas, "Dali", Journal American, 12/12/1965, New York, p. 9
- G.r. Swenson, "Is Dali Disgusting?", Art News, 31/12/1965, New York, N.y., p. 51
- s. a., "Dali Painting", News, 19/02/1967, San Antonio, Tex., n. p. (detail)
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 16 (+ detall)
- Max. Gérard, Dalí... Dalí... Dalí..., Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974, il. 7
- 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 159
- Cristina Gil, "Los Reyes inauguraron la exposición de Dalí", Ya, 16/04/1983, Madrid, n. p. (indirect image)
- Jordi Bosch, "El Príncipe de Asturias representó al genial artista ampurdanés", Los Sitios, 16/04/1983, Girona, p. 20 (indirect image) (detail)
- M.t. Berengueras, "Dalí: "Hoy es un día histórico para la química"", El Correo Catalán, 16/04/1983, s. l., p. 31 (indirect image) (detail)
- Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 32, p. 90
- Rudolf Rom, Salvador Dalí, the surrealistic angel, Lorenzo & di Salvo, San Francisco, 1985, p. 72 (imateg indirecte, detall)
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 306
- Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural/Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 119
- Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 123
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 139, p. 140 (indirect image) (detail)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 93
- Jaime Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Anaya, Madrid, 1993, p. 75
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 385
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 78 (detail), p. 80
- Exiles + emigrés : the flights of european artists from Hitler, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 150
- Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, il. XXXII
- Dali exhibition 1999, NTV Europe B.V., [S.l.], 1999, p. 135, p. 134 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 135
- Dalí en las colecciones españolas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente,, Segovia, 2001, p. 97
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 253
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 253
- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 148
- Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, p. 62
- Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2004, p. 165
- Marina García, Dalí per a nens, Albur, Barcelona, 2004, p. 5 (detail)
- Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 89
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 372
- It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, p. 102
- Shaun O'L. Higgings, Colleen Striegel, Press gallery : the newspaper in modern and postmodern art, New Media Ventures, Spokane, Washington, 2005, p. 93 (indirect image) (detail)
- Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 7 (detail), p. 40
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 194
- Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, [Madrid], [Figueres], London, 2007, p. 165
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 106
- The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, p. 25 (indirect image) (detail), p. 54
- Gavin Parkinson, Surrealism, art and modern science : relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology, Yale University, New Haven & London, 2008, p. 204
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Juan José Lahuerta, Salvador Dalí i les revistes, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2008, il. 245 (indirect image) (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : il sogno si avvicina, 24 Ore Cultura, Milano, 2010, cover (detail), p. 95
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 22
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : the reality of dreams, Prestel, New York, Munich, London, 2011, p. 78 (detail), p. 80
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 244
- Dalí News, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2014, p. 49
- Salvador Dalí, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, 2014, p. 137
- Media - Dalí, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai Culture Publishing House, Shanghai, 2015, p. 178 (indirect image) (detail)
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 57
- Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, p. 32-33 (detail), p. 194-195
- Dalí atómico, Fundación Bancaria "la Caixa", [Barcelona], 2018, p. 56
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