- Cat. no. P
- 287
La mémoire de la femme-enfant (Memory of the Child-Woman)

Cat. no. P 287
Memory of the Child-Woman
1932
Description
- Date:
- 1932
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 99 x 120.65 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated right below: a Gala Eluard Salvador Dali 1932
- Inscriptions:
- Inscribed at the base of the bust, in the medal: GILLAUME TELL
Inscribed upper center: ma mere ma mere / ma mere ma mere / ma mere ma mere / ma mere ma mere / ma mere ma mare / Fantaisies Diurnes
Inscribed upper center: Le grand [...] [...] / Le grand Masturbateur / Guillaume Tell / olivette / olivette / olivette / concretion nostalgique d'une cle - Location:
- The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)
- Georges F. Keller
- E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)
- Although this work was exhibited for the first time with the title L'homme fleur in 1939, we have retained the first title, which appears in René Crevel's Dalí ou l'antiobscurantisme, published in 1931.
- 1939, Adelaide, National Art Gallery of South Australia, Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, 21-8-1939 - 17-9-1939, cat. no. 27
- 1939, Melbourne, Lower Town Hall, Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, 16-10-1939 - 1-11-1939, cat. no. 27
- 1939, Sidney, David Jones's Art Gallery, Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, 20-11-1939 - 16-12-1939, cat. no. 27
- 1940, Sydney, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, [Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art], January - June 1940,
- 1940, Sydney, National Gallery of New South Wales, Exhibition of Continental Art, 1-11-1940 - 31-12-1940,
- 1943, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, [Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art], december 1943,
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 44
- 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21-10-1998 - 31-1-1999, cat. no. 17
- 1999, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Dali exhibition 1999, 12-6-1999 - 20-8-1999, cat. no. 22
- 1999, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Dali exhibition 1999, 28-8-1999 - 24-10-1999, cat. no. 22
- 2006, Tokio, Ueno Royal Museum, Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, 23-9-2006 - 4-1-2007, cat. no. 16
- 2007, Osaka, Suntory Museum, Dalí multifaceted : centenary exhibition, 8-3-2007 - 6-5-2007, cat. no. 11
- 2009, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Salvador Dalí : liquid desire, 13-6-2009 - 4-10-2009, no reference
- René Crevel, Dalí ou l'anti-obscurantisme, Éditions Surréalistes, Paris, 1931, il VII
- Les arts a Paris, Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1933, p. 15
- Rafael Benet, "Els tres camins de l'art figuratiu", Mirador, 12/01/1933, s. l., p. 7
- Salvador Dalí, La Conquête de l'irrationnel, Éditions Surréalistes, Paris, 1935, il. 9
- s. a., "Town hall transformed Art Gallery", Herald, 14/10/1939, s. l., (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. 8
- A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 36
- s. a., "Kultur. Malerei. Salvador Dalí", Der Spiegel, 28/12/1960, Hamburg, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 48
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 121 (detail), il. 145 (detail)
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 155
- Poetic homage to Gala-Salvador Dalí, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland, 1973, p. 12 (detail)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Eleanor R. Morse, The Dalí adventure : 1943-1973, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, [1973], il. 59 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 62, p. 155
- Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974, il. 44, il. 45 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Filipacchi, Paris, 1978, p. 79
- Salvador Dalí, selected works, Filipacchi, New York, 1979, p. 79
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 186
- Homage to Dalí, Chartwell Books, Secaucus, New Jersey, [1980], p. 93, p. 126
- Hommage à Dalí, Vilo, Paris, 1980, p. 93, p. 126
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. VI
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1983, p. 30
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 30
- Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 44, il. 45 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 115
- Dalí: the Salvador Dalí museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston. Toronto. London, 1991, il. 45
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 69
- Lee Catterall, The Great Dalí art fraud and other deceptions, Barricade Books, Fort Lee [New Jersey], 1992, n. p. (indirect image)
- Marcel Duchamp, Thames & Hudson, London, 1993, [24-25-26 de Setembre]
- Summa artis|Pintura y escultura española del siglo XX : 1900-1939, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1993, p. 489
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 128
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 176
- David Carter, Salvador Dalí, Chelsea House, New York - Philadelphia, 1995, p. 76
- Haim Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, p. 137
- 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. 67
- Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, il. XXIV
- Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 42 (detail), p. 47, p. 47 (detail), p. 109 (detail)
- Dali exhibition 1999, NTV Europe B.V., [S.l.], 1999, p. 84-85
- Fèlix Fanés, Salvador Dalí, la construcción de la imagen : 1925-1930, Electa, [Madrid], 1999, p. 174
- Robert S. Lubar, The Salvador Dalí Museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston - New York - London, 2000, p. 67
- Paris Barcelone, de Gaudí a Miró, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Museu Picasso, Paris, Barcelona, 2001, p. 436
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Salvador Dalí : désirs inassouvis du purisme au surréalisme, 1925-1935, La Passage, Paris-New York, 2002, il. 27
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 121
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 121
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 127 (detail)
- Eileen Chanin, Steven Miller, Degenerates and perverts : the 1939 Herald exhibition of French and British contemporary art, The Miegunyah press, Victoria, 2005, cover (indirect image), p. 201 (indirect image), p. 212 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, Ueno Royal Museum, Ueno, 2006, p. 63, p. 62 (detail)
- Dalí multifaceted : centenary exhibition, The Chunichi Shimbun, [S.l.], 2007, p. 45, p. 44 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : liquid desire, National Gallery of Victoria, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, Melbourne, Figueres, 2009, p. 18 (indirect image), p. 19 (indirect image), p. 160 (detail), p. 162
- s. a., "Hallazgo de un álbum perdido de Salvador Dalí", LA VANGUARDIA, 17/04/2011, s. l., p. 42
- Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, il. 14
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