- Cat. no. OE
- 2
Babaouo
Cat. no. OE 2
Babaouo
1932
Description
- Date:
- 1932
- Technique:
- Wooden box, sheets of painted glass and light source
- Dimensions:
- 25 x 26.5 x 35 cm
- Location:
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
- Description:
- It is very likely that Dalí conceived this work as a promotional object to publicize his book Babaouo : scénario inédit, précédé d'un abrégé d'une histoire critique du cinéma, et suivi de Guillaume Tell, ballet portugais, published in 1932 by Éditions des Cahiers Libres in Paris. This publication presents a script by Dalí for a Surrealist film, which was not in fact made at the time. The object consists of a wooden box with seven panes of glass painted by the artist in its interior, placed one behind the other and lit from the back. The iconography is related to certain sequences of the film project, featuring cyclists with large stones or breads on their head. The result is a painting conceived as a three-dimensional object, with remarkable effects of perspective and depth, a creation that can be related to the Optical Theatre system of animated moving pictures, which fascinated Dalí as a boy.
- For reasons of preventive conservation, in 2007 the original glass panes were replaced by reproductions on PMMA to avoid the risk of breakage.
- 1964, París, Galerie Charpentier, Le Surréalisme : sources, histoire, affinités, 13-4-1964 - 30-9-1964, cat. no. 88
- 1979, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18-12-1979 - 21-4-1980, cat. no. 177
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14-5-1980 - 29-6-1980, cat. no. 125
- 1982, Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 28-2-1982 - 6-4-1982, cat. no. 72
- 1982, Osaka, Daimaru Art Museum, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 22-4-1982 - 5-5-1982, cat. no. 72
- 1982, Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 8-5-1982 - 6-6-1982, cat. no. 72
- 1982, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 11-6-1982 - 11-7-1982, cat. no. 72
- 1987, Kobe, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Homage to Catalonia - Barcelona art city, 11-4-1987 - 17-5-1987, cat. no. 119
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13-5-1989 - 23-7-1989, cat. no. 89
- 1989, Zürich, Kunsthaus, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 18-8-1989 - 22-10-1989, cat. no. 89
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16-12-1989 - 11-3-1990, cat. no. 76
- 1990, Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Salvador Dalí, 27-4-1990 - 29-7-1990, cat. no. 20
- 2004, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Dalí. Cultura de masses, 5-2-2004 - 23-5-2004, cat. no. 120
- 2004, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Dalí. Cultura de masas, 15-6-2004 - 30-8-2004, cat. no. 120
- 2004, St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, Dalí. Mass Culture, 1-8-2004 - 30-1-2005, cat. no. 120
- 2005, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, It's all Dali, 5-3-2005 - 12-6-2005, no reference
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 1-6-2007 - 9-9-2007, cat. no. 72
- 2007, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dalí & Film, 14-10-2007 - 6-1-2008, cat. no. 72
- 2008, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum, Dalí & Film, 1-2-2008 - 1-6-2008, cat. no. 72
- 2008, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dalí & Film, 29-6-2008 - 15-9-2008, cat. no. 72
- 2012, París, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21-11-2012 - 25-3-2013, no reference
- 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, no reference
- René Crevel, "Surrealisme", Vu, année 6, num. 275, 21-27/06/1933, Paris, p. 923, ill., indirect image
- David Gascoyne, A short survey of surrealism, Cobden-Sanderson, [Londres], 1935, p. 122
- Le Surréalisme : sources, histoire, affinités, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1964, p. [31]
- De Fiets, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1977, pp. 116-117, 167, ill.
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 234, ill.
- Salvador Dalí: retrospektive, 1920-1980, Prestel, München, 1980, p. 234, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, p. 27
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 53, ill.
- Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, Edition Art Life, [S.l.], 1982, pp. [120], [150], ill.
- Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, pp. [201], 214, ill.
- Dawn Ades, Dalí, Thames and Hudson, London, 1982, pp. [201], 214, ill.
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1982, pp. [65], [125], fig. 49
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí, l'oeuvre et l'homme, Edita, Lausanne, 1984, p. 121, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí : la obra y el hombre, Tusquets / Edita, Lausanne, Barcelona, 1984, p. 121, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí, the work, the man: 1910-1933, Kodansha, [Tòquio], 1984, p. 121, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí, sein Werk, sein Leben: die Eroberung, des Irrationalen, Dumont, Köln, 1984, p. 121, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, Rafael Santos Torroella, Salvador Dalí corresponsal de J.V. Foix, 1932-1936, Mediterrània, Barcelona, 1986, p. [51], ill., indirect image
- Homage to Catalonia - Barcelona art city, Commitee of exhibition (Homage to Catalonia-Barcelona art city), [S.l.], 1987, pp. 189, 239, ill.
- Louisiana revy, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 62
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, pp. 116-117, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí : the work, the man, Henry N. Abrams, New York, 1989, p. 121, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 54, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1990, p. 54, ill.
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Albin Michel, Paris, 1990, pp. [65], [125], fig. 49
- René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, pp. [12], 24, ill.
- Dalí, el pa, Tusquets, Barcelona, 1993, p. 36, ill.
- Dalí, el pan, Tusquets, Barcelona, 1993, p. 36, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 182, ill.
- Haim Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 118, 290
- Dawn Ades, Dalí, Thames and Hudson, London, 1998, pp. 201, 214, ill.
- Alfonso Puyal, Cinema y arte nuevo : la recepción fílmica en la vanguardia española , 1917-1937, Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid, 2003, p. 277
- Robert Descharnes, Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí : le dur et le mou : sortilège et magie des formes, sculptures et objets, Eccart, [Azay le Rideau], 2003, p. 17, ill.
- Xavier Barral i Altet, Las Indigestiones de Dalí, Edicions de 1984, Barcelona, 2003, pp. 68-69
- Xavier Barral i Altet, Les Indigestions de Dalí, Edicions de 1984, Barcelona, 2003, pp. 68-69
- Companion to Spanish surrealism, Tamesis, Woodbridge, 2004, p. 131
- Dalí. Cultura de masas, Fundación La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 91, 268, ill.
- Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 91, 268, ill.
- Dalí. Mass Culture, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 91, 268, ill.
- It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, p. 131, ill.
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 124, ill.
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, cover, pp. 54-55, ill.
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatro-Museo Dalí : foto guía, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Sant Lluís, Menorca, [Figueres], 2007, p. 44, ill.
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, The Dalí Theatre-Museum : photo guide, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Sant Lluís, Menorca, [Figueres], 2007, p. 44, ill.
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí : foto guia, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Sant Lluís, Menorca, [Figueres], 2007, p. 44, ill.
- Dalí y el cine, Electa, Barcelona, 2008, p. 124, ill.
- Un perro andaluz 80 años después, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, La Fábrica, Madrid, 2009, p. 85, ill.
- William Jeffett, Dalí doubled : from surrealism to the self : a new critical view of Dalí, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2010, pp. 46, 315, ill.
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. [192], ill.
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, pp. 250-251, ill.
- Dalí : Todas las sugestiones poéticas y todas las posibilidades plásticas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, TF Editores, Madrid, 2013, pp. 250-251, ill.
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Cat. no. OE 20
The Little Theatre
1934
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