Melancholic eccentricity

• Edward James
• Edward James Foundation, West Dean, Chichester

• It is possible that Dalí titled this work Melancholic eccentricity after a photograph of the period by André Caillet, on the reverse of which is written "Melancholic eccentricity". This title coincides with the work presented by Dalí at the exhibition held at Julien Levy Gallery, New York, from March 21st to April 18th 1939, number 13. According to information shared by the Tate Modern, this painting was exhibited at the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, from September 10th to October 5th 1941, number 14, under the title Mountain Lake.

• 1939, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dali 1939, 21-3-1939 - 18-4-1939, cat. no. 13
• 1941, Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Salvador Dalí, 10-9-1941 - 5-10-1941, cat. no. 14
• 1946, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Four Spaniards : Dali, Gris, Miro, Picasso, 24-1-1946 - 3-3-1946, cat. no. 10
• 1970, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, 21-11-1970 - 10-1-1971, cat. no. 63
• 1971, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dali Art-in-Jewels Exhibition & Paintings, 8-6-1971 - 10-7-1971, cat. no. 12
• 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14-5-1980 - 29-6-1980, cat. no. 161
• 1993, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Surrealism : revolution by night, 12-3-1993 - 2-5-1993, cat. no. 47
• 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21-10-1998 - 31-1-1999, cat. no. 36
• 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 1-6-2007 - 9-9-2007, Fig 12
• 2012, París, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21-11-2012 - 25-3-2013, p. 241
• 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, p. 241

• Dalí, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970, il. 63
• Dalí: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1971, p. 149
• Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 166
• Salvador Dalí : a guide to his works in public museums, The Dalí Museum, Cleveland [Ohio], 1973, p. [84]
• Dali, Ballantine Books, New York, 1974, n. p.
• Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 166
• Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, il. 45, p. 113
• William Gaunt, Los Surrealistas, Labor, Barcelona [etc.], 1974, p. 169
• Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 252
• Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 161
• Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 65
• Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 137
• Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 8
• Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 83
• Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1985, p. 8
• Simon Wilson, La Peinture surréaliste, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1987, il. 29
• Surrealism in the Tate collection, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 1988, p. 19
• Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 13 (supplement)
• Salvador Dalí, Meisterwerke der dreissiger Jahre, Schirmer-Mosel, München, 1989, il. 31
• Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 94-95
• Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 113
• Surrealism : revolution by night, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1993, p. 183
• A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 98 (detail)
• Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 94-95
• Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 206
• Nathaniel Harris, The Life and works of Dalí, Parragon, [Regne Unit], 1994, p. 54-55
• Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 315
• Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 97
• Fiona Bradley, Surrealism, Tate Gallery, London, 1997, p. 40
• Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 102
• Grandes maestros de la pintura : Dalí, Altaya, Barcelona, 2001, p. 18
• Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 207
• The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 207
• Salvador Dalí : La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2006, p. 162
• Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 29
• Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, p. 77
• Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 241
• Surreal encounters : collecting the marvellous, National Galleries of Scotland, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Rotterdam, 2016, p. [68]

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