- Cat. no. OE
- 20
Le petit théâtre
The Little Theatre
Cat. no. OE 20
The Little Theatre
1934
Description
- Date:
- 1934
- Technique:
- Wooden box, sheets of painted glass and light source
- Dimensions:
- 32.3 x 42.5 x 31.1 cm
- Location:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the James Thrall Soby Bequest, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Loula D. Lasker, and William S. Paley Funds
- Description:
- By virtue of its typology, this object can be related to the Babaouo of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí. Inside the wooden box are eleven paintings on glass by Dalí, placed one behind the other and lit from the back. In the composition of the scenes represented on each pane of glass, a true compendium of Surrealist iconography is revealed reflected in some of the most important pictorial works of this period. In this way Dalí created a painting conceived as a three-dimensional object, with remarkable effects of perspective and depth. In this particular work the link with the Optical Theatre system of animated moving pictures is especially evident, thanks to the proscenium painted on the first frontal pane of glass.
- [Galerie François Petit (André François Petit), Paris]
- Emilio Terry, Paris
- Mme. [Emmy] de Martelaere, Paris, ?-1974
- Perls Galleries, New York, 1974-1981
- 1975, New York, Perls Galleries, 30 Major Acquisitions, 8-4-1975 - 17-5-1975, cat. no. 10
- 1977, New York, Perls Galleries, 40 Years Masterworks, 18-10-1977 - 26-11-1977, cat. no. 14
- 1979, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18-12-1979 - 21-4-1980, cat. no. 160
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14-5-1980 - 29-6-1980, cat. no. 81
- 1984, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture, 6-5-1984 - 14-8-1991,
- 1993, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Selections from Permanent the Collection of Painting and Scultpure, 16-9-1993 - 23-7-1999,
- 2006, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006, 16-11-2006 - 14-4-2008,
- 2008, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dalí & Film, 29-6-2008 - 15-9-2008, no reference
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 223, ill.
- Salvador Dalí: retrospektive, 1920-1980, Prestel, München, 1980, p. 223, ill.
- Salvador Dalí: retrospektive, 1920-1980, Prestel, München, 1980, p. 223, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, p. 25
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 52, ill.
- Pierre Ajame, La Double de vie de Salvador Dali, Ramsay, Paris, 1984, p. 94
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí, the work, the man: 1934-1944, Kodansha, [Tòquio], 1984, p. 169, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí : la obra y el hombre, Tusquets / Edita, Lausanne, Barcelona, 1984, p. 169, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí, sein Werk, sein Leben: die Eroberung, des Irrationalen, Dumont, Köln, 1984, p. 169, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí, l'oeuvre et l'homme, Edita, Lausanne, 1984, p. 169, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí : the work, the man, Henry N. Abrams, New York, 1989, p. 169, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 753
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 224, ill.
- 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.
- Companion to Spanish surrealism, Tamesis, Woodbridge, 2004, p. 131
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 129, ill.
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, pp. 54, 63, ill.
- Dalí y el cine, Electa, Barcelona, 2008, p. 129, ill.
- William Jeffett, Dalí doubled : from surrealism to the self : a new critical view of Dalí, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2010, p. 46, ill.
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Cat. no. OE 2
Babaouo
1932
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