- Cat. no. P
- 454
Swans Reflecting Elephants
Cat. no. P 454
Swans Reflecting Elephants
1937
Description
- Date:
- 1937
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 51 x 77 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower left corner: Gala Salvador Dali 1937
- Location:
- Private collection
- Edward James
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, Londres, June 30th, 1976
- Cavalieri Holding, Geneva
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, May 9th, 1995
- During World War II this work was looted by the German army occupying France and was kept in storage in the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris in the "Salle des Martyrs" from 1940 to 1944.
- 1973, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 6-10-1973 - 2-12-1973, cat. no. 20
- 1974, Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Salvador Dalí, 14-3-1974 - 5-5-1974, cat. no. 12
- 1979, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18-12-1979 - 21-4-1980, cat. no. 227
- 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 15-4-1983 - 29-5-1983, cat. no. 161
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13-5-1989 - 23-7-1989, cat. no. 186
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16-12-1989 - 11-3-1990, cat. no. 32
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27-4-1990 - 29-7-1990, cat. no. 40
- 2003, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning, 22-2-2003 - 9-6-2003, p. 69
- 2009, París, Galeries Nationales. Grand Palais, Une image peut en cacher une autre: Arcimboldo, Dali, Raetz, 8-4-2009 - 6-7-2009, cat. no. 27
- 2011, Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Surrealism in Paris, 2-10-2011 - 29-1-2012, p. 244-245
- p. 72-73 (detail)
- Louisiana Revy : Salvador Dalí, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1973, p. 21
- s. a., "Salvador Dalí", Moderna Museet Stockholm, 26/12/1973, Stockholm, p. 16
- Salvador Dalí, Städtische Galerie und Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am main, 1974, p. 26
- Marianna Minola de Gallotti, "Exposición Salvador Dalí en el Museo Louisiana de Humlebaek (dinamarca)", La Vanguardia Española, 21/06/1974, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
- Robert Descharnes, S. Terayama, Dalí: the book of great masters, Zauho, Tokyo, 1978, il. 33
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 294
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 153
- Marianna Minola de Galloti, "Salvador Dalí en el "Beaubourg" de París", Goya, 31/07/1980, Madrid, p. 62 (detail)
- Guglielmo Bernardi, "Salvador Dalí", Pan, 04/1981, Offenburgh, p. 9 (detail)
- Edward James, Swans reflecting elephants : my early years, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1982, dustjacket (detail)
- 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 125
- Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 21, p. 88
- Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 27
- Entender la pintura : Dalí, Orbis - Fabri, Barcelona, 1989, p. 21
- Louisiana revy, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 26-27
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 233
- Salvador Dalí, Meisterwerke der dreissiger Jahre, Schirmer-Mosel, München, 1989, il. 28
- Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, dustjacket (detail), p. 95
- Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 86-87
- Eric Shanes, Dalí, Debate, Madrid, 1991, p. 91
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 107
- Paris : 1937-1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Gallimard, Paris, 1992, p. 153 (indirect image)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 232 (detail)
- Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 88-89
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 194
- Nathaniel Harris, The Life and works of Dalí, Parragon, [Regne Unit], 1994, p. 46-47
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 288
- Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 16
- A surreal life: Edward James, 1907-1984, Royal Pavillion, Librairies & Museums, Brighton & Hove, Philip Wilson, London, 1998, p. 51
- Robert Goff, The Essential Salvador Dalí, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998, p. 78-79 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : Dream of Venus, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació La Caixa, Museum of Contemporary Art, Figueres, Miami, Barcelona, 2002, p. 212
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 198
- The Endless enigma : Dalí and the magicians of multiple meaning, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, dustjacket (detail), p. 69
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 198
- Dalí : afinitats electives, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura., Barcelona, 2004, p. 148-149
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 101 (detail)
- Alyse Gaultier, L'Abcdaire de Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 80-81 (detail)
- Alyse Gaultier, The Little book of Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 68-69 (detail)
- Silvia Borghesi, Dalí, Electa, Milán, 2004, p. 62
- Tonia Raquejo, Dalí: metamorfosis, Edilupa, [Madrid], 2004, p. 66 (detail), p. 123
- Une image peut en cacher une autre : Arcimboldo, Dali, Raetz, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2009, p. 37
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 39
- Pilar Parcerisas, Duchamp en España : las claves ocultas de sus estancias en Cadaqués, Siruela, Madrid, 2009, p. 35
- Surrealism in Paris, Hatje Kantz, Basilea, 2011, p. 244-245
- David Lomas, Narcissus reflected : the myth of Narcissus in surrealist and contemporary art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2011, p. 34
- Emmanuelle Polack, Philippe Dagen, Les Carnets de Rose Valland : li pillage des collections privées d'oeuvres d'art en France durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Fage Éditions, Lyon, 2011, p. 119 (indirect image)
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 3 (detail), p. 42, reverse (detail)
- Rose Valland, Le front de l'art : Défense des collections françaises, 1939 1945, Chirat, Saint Just la Pendue, 2016, il. 61, p. 306 (indirect image)
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