- Cat. no. P
- 417
A chemist lifting with extreme precaution the cuticle of a grand piano
Cat. no. P 417
A chemist lifting with extreme precaution the cuticle of a grand piano
1936
Description
- Date:
- 1936
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 48.3 x 64.1 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated on the lower right corner: Gala Salvador Dali 1936
- Location:
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Illinois) (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro)
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hart Fisher (Ruth Page), Chicago (Illinois)
- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shapiro, Oak Park (Illinois)
- 1936, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Souvenir - Catalogue, 10-12-1936 - 9-1-1937, cat. no. 8
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19-11-1941 - 11-1-1942, cat. no. 29
- 1942, Indianapolis, The John Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis Museum of Art), [Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali], 5-4-1942 - 4-5-1942, cat. no. 29
- 1979, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18-12-1979 - 21-4-1980, cat. no. 141
- 1985, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, 23-2-1985 - 14-4-1985, cat. no. 30
- Souvenir - Catalogue, Julien Levy Gallery, [new York], [1936/37], n. p.
- John Menaugh, "Art Dreamlines Mae West !", Chicago Daily Tribune, 26/06/1938, Chicago, IL, n. p.
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 59
- A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 37
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 199
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. XXII
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 35
- Clarà, Dalí, Monturiol, Pla, Vayreda, Diputació Provincial de Girona, Nou Art Thor, Girona, Barcelona, 1983, p. 18 (detail)
- Wagner i Catalunya, Del Cotal, Barcelona, 1983, n. p. (detail)
- Jaume Socias, Dalí, Nou Art, Barcelona, 1983, p. 18 (detail)
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 258
- Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 55 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí i les arts : historiografia i crítica al segle XXI, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2005, p. 51
- Shaun O'L. Higgings, Colleen Striegel, Press gallery : the newspaper in modern and postmodern art, New Media Ventures, Spokane, Washington, 2005, cover, p. 92
- Un perro andaluz 80 años después, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, La Fábrica, Madrid, 2009, p. 122
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