Suburbs of the «paranoiac-critical town»

• Edward James
• Auctioned at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 30th, 1981

• This work received different titles during 1936. The original title corresponds to the one given when it was first exhibited. The second title is given by Dalí when the painting was shown at the exhibition held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, from December 10th, 1936 to January 9th, 1937. Besides these various different titles, this painting also appears under the following names: Panel in Julien Levy's book Surrealism, The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936, and as "Unfinished" in Minotaure, number 8, 15th of June 1936.

• 1936, London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Salvador Dali, 1-6-1936 - 31-7-1936, cat. no. 26
• 1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, 10-12-1936 - 9-1-1937, cat. no. 12
• 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 80
• 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21-11-1970 - 10-1-1971, cat. no. 49
• 1971, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dali Art-in-Jewels Exhibition & Paintings, 8-6-1971 - 10-7-1971, cat. no. 6
• 1972, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, July - September 1972, cat. no. 8
• 1979, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18-12-1979 - 21-4-1980, cat. no. 226
• 1999, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, 4-6-1999 - 12-9-1999, cat. no. 54
• 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12-9-2004 - 16-1-2005, cat. no. 151

• Surrealism, Faber & Faber, London, 1936, il. 24 (detail)
• Julien Levy, Surrealism, The Black Sun Press, New York, 1936, p. 168
• Teriade, E., "La peinture surréaliste", Minotaure, 15/06/1936, Paris, p. 11
• Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. 13 (detail)
• Tristan, "Salvador Dali visto desde Cadaques", Destino, 28/09/1946, Barcelona, p. 4 (detail)
• Coll, Julio, "La vida secreta de Salvador Dalí", Liceo, 30/09/1947, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
• Herbert Read, Art now : an introduction to the theory of modern painting and sculpture, Faber and Faber, London, 1960, il. 109 (detail)
• Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 27 (detail)
• Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 49
• Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 122
• José Angelo Gaiarsa, Respiraçao e imaginaçao, Jose Angelo Gaiarsa, Sao Paulo, 1971, p. 30, p. 89 (detail), p. 93 (detail)
• Salvador Dali : bruikleen uit collectie Edward F. W. James, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1972, p. 12
• Dali, Ballantine Books, New York, 1974, n. p., n. p. (detail)
• Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, p. 106
• William Gaunt, Los Surrealistas, Labor, Barcelona [etc.], 1974, p. 163
• Henry-François Rey, Dalí en su laberinto, Euros, Barcelona, 1975, cover (detail)
• Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Madrid, Barcelona, 1975, p. 256
• 100 anys de Catalunya (1877-1977), Banco Comercial de Cataluña, Barcelona, 1977, p. 91
• Salvador Dalí, Les Vins de Gala, Draeger, Paris, 1977, p. 190-191 (detail)
• Dawn Ades, Dada and surrealism reviewed, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1978, p. 300
• Malcolm Haslam, The Real world of the surrealists, Gallery Press, New York, 1978, p. 152-153 (detail)
• Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 293
• Salvador Dalí, Oui 2. L'archangélisme scientifique, Denöel/Gonthier, Paris, 1979, p. [42] (detail)
• Salvador Dalí, Sì. La rivoluzione paranoico-critica. L'arcangelismo scientifico, Rizzoli, Milano, 1980, p. 42
• s. a., "Dossier Dalí", Guadalimar, 31/01/1980, Madrid, n. p. (detail)
• Twenty-eight works from the Edward James collection, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1981, p. 50
• Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 70
• Dawn Ades, Dalí, Thames and Hudson, London, 1982, il. 32, p. 130
• El Surrealismo, Cátedra, Madrid, 1983, p. [138]
• Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1983, p. 51 (detail)
• Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 51
• José Pierre, L'Aventure surréaliste autour d'André Breton, Filipacchi, Artcurial, Paris, [París], 1986, p. 80
• Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 13
• Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 115
• Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 80-81
• A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 151 (2 details)
• Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood, Realism, rationalism, surrealism : art between the wars, Yale University Press in association with the Open University, New Haven & London, 1993, p. 221
• Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 80, p. 81
• Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 190-191
• Nathaniel Harris, The Life and works of Dalí, Parragon, [Regne Unit], 1994, p. 40-41
• Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 267
• Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 85
• Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, il. XXVII
• Robert Radford, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1997, p. 184
• A surreal life: Edward James, 1907-1984, Royal Pavillion, Librairies & Museums, Brighton & Hove, Philip Wilson, London, 1998, p. 49
• Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 108- 109
• Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Electa, Madrid, 1999, p. 40
• Juan Antonio Ramírez, Dalí: lo crudo y lo podrido, A. Machado Libros, Madrid, 2002, p. 72
• Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 178
• The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 178
• Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 80 (detail), p. 90-91
• Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 249
• El País de Dalí, Consorci del Museu de l'Empordà, Figueres, 2004, p. 236
• Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 63 (detail)
• Salvador Dalí, Josep Pla. Coincidències, Fundació Josep Pla, Palafrugell, 2004, p. 35 (indirect image) (detail)
• Enric Bou, Daliccionario : objetos, mitos y símbolos de Salvador Dalí, Tusquets, Barcelona, 2004, p. 21
• Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, Paris, 2004, p. 84-85
• Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, p. 84-85
• Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí the impresario of surrealism, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, p. 84-85
• Patrice Schmitt, Étude psychanalytique de la création chez Salvador Dalí, Lacour-Ollé, Nimes, 2004, il. 4.1 (detail)
• Tonia Raquejo, Dalí: metamorfosis, Edilupa, [Madrid], 2004, p. 94
• Dalí evolució, Ajuntament de Cadaqués, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 2006, p. 48
• Robin Adèle Greeley, Surrealism and the Spanish civil war, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, p. 59
• Dalís medienspiele: falsche fährten und paranoische selbstinszenierungen in den künsten, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2007, p. 365 (detail)
• Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 71
• Atles paisatgístic de les terres de Girona, Diputació de Girona, Girona, 2010, p. 946
• Jesús Lázaro Docio, El Secreto creador de Salvador Dalí : el método paranoico-crítico, 1927-1937, Eutelequia, Madrid, 2010, il. 23
• Roger Rothman, Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small, University of Nebraska, Lincoln & London, 2012, p. 203
• Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 31 (indirect image)
• Dalí: Il sogno del Classico, Skira, Milano, 2016, p. 20

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