- Cat. no. OE
- 5
Morceau de savon présentant des formes automatiques Modern Style trouvé dans un lavabo
Piece of soap presenting Modern Style automatic shapes, found in a washbasin
Cat. no. OE 5
Piece of soap presenting Modern Style automatic shapes, found in a washbasin
1932-1933
Description
- Author:
- Salvador Dalí i Domènech - Gyula Halász, àlies Brassaï
- Date:
- 1932-1933
- Technique:
- Photograph and found object or object of automatic origin
- Dimensions:
- 17.5 x 23.5 x cm
The dimensions correspond to the original print run of the photograph - Inscriptions:
- On the back: Sculptures involontaires / Morceau de savon suscitant des / formes automatiques 'Modern' Style trouvé / dans un lavabo
- Location:
- Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne - Centre de création industrielle, Paris
- Description:
- Between 1932-1933, Dalí took on the artistic direction of a series of photographs made with Gyula Halász, alias Brassaï (1899-1984), in which certain objects, probably of automatic origin, acquire a new conceptual and artistic dimension, grounded in the essence of the photographic image. Several of these photographs were published anonymously in 1933 in the magazine Minotaure, under the heading ‘Sculptures involontaires’, each with a descriptive title drawing attention to details of the work. This title almost certainly refers once again to Dalí’s article ‘Concerning the Terrifying and Edible Beauty of Art Nouveau Architecture’, published in the same issue of Minotaure.
Dalí’s original spelling of the title has been corrected: 'Morceau de savon présentant des formes automatiques Modern'Style trouvé dans un lavabo'.
The dimensions and the inscriptions correspond to the original print run of this photograph, which is conserved at the Centre de création industrielle in Paris.
- "Sculptures Involontaires", 12/1933, Paris, p. [68], ill., indirect image
- Brassaï, Conversations avec Picasso, Gallimard, [París], 1964, p. 49
- Brassaï, Picasso and company, Doubleday, New York, 1966, p. 36
- Rosalind Krauss, "The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism", October, vol. 19, Hivern 1981, New York, NY, pp. [30]-31, ill., indirect image
- Brassaï, Les Artistes de ma vie, Denoël, Paris, 1982, pp. 29, 34
- Paul Éluard, Lettres à Gala: 1924-1948, Gallimard, [París], 1984, pp. 222, 226-227
- Rosalind E. Krauss, Jane Livingston, L'Amour fou : photography & surrealism, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Abbeville, Washington, D.c., New York, London, 1985, pp. 19, 38, ill.
- Paul Éluard, Cartas a Gala: 1924-1948, Tusquets, Barcelona, 1986, pp. 189, 191-192
- Regards sur Minotaure : la revue à tête de bête, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève, Genève, 1987, pp. 214, 265, ill.
- Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood, Realism, rationalism, surrealism : art between the wars, Yale University Press in association with the Open University, New Haven & London, 1993, pp. 209-210, ill., indirect image
- Gérard Durozoi, Histoire du mouvement surréaliste, Hazan, Paris, 1997, p. [245], ill., indirect image
- Matthew Gale, Dada & surrealism, Phaidon, London, 1997, p. 294
- Surrealism: two private eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi collections, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 1999, p. 723
- Christopher Green, Art in France : 1900- 1940, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 136-137, ill., indirect image
- La Révolution surréaliste, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2002, pp. [198], 431, ill.
- Surrealismus 1919 - 1944 : Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, Düsseldorf, 2002, pp. [202], [452], ill.
- Gérard Durozoi, History of the surrealist movement, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London, 2002, p. [242], ill., indirect image
- Joan R. Kropf, Dalí objects / Dalí fetishes, Salvador Dalí Museum, Florida, 2002, pp. 11-12, ill., indirect image
- Rosalind E. Krauss, Jane Livingston, Dawn Ades, Explosante - fixe : photographie & surréalisme, Hazan, [S.l.], 2002, pp. 19, 38, ill.
- Dalí. Cultura de masas, Fundación La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 180-181, 278, ill. (reversed image)
- Dalí. Cultura de masses, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 180-181, 278, ill. (reversed image)
- Dalí. Mass Culture, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 180-181, 278, ill. (reversed image)
- Dalí Gaudí : La revolució del sentiment d'originalitat, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, p. 43, ill., indirect image
- Dalí Gaudí : La revolución del sentimiento de originalidad, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, p. 43, ill., indirect image
- Dalí Gaudí : The revolution of the sentiment of originality, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Barcelona, 2004, p. 43, ill., indirect image
- David Bates, Photography and surrealism: sexuality, colonialism and social dissent, I.B. Tauris, New York, London, 2004, p. 84
- Mary Ann Caws, Surrealism, Phaidon, London, 2004, p. 98, ill., indirect image
- It's all Dalí, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2005, p. 290, ill. (reversed image)
- Salvador Dalí i les arts : historiografia i crítica al segle XXI, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2005, pp. 93-94
- Cosas del surrealismo : surrealismo y diseño, Victoria and Albert Museum, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, London, 2007, p. 62, ill., indirect image
- Modern sculpture reader, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2007, p. 96
- Surreal things : surrealism and design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2007, p. 62, ill., indirect image
- Guillermo Carnero, Salvador Dalí y otros estudios sobre arte y vanguardia, Institució Alfons el Magnànim - Diputació de València, [València], 2007, pp. 41, 54, 208
- La Subversion des images : surrealisme, photographie, film, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009, pp. 346-347, 461, ill., indirect image
- Salvador Dalí. Ritratto di un genio, Abscondita, Milano, 2011, p. 119
- Anna Dezeuze, Julia Kelly, Found sculpture and photography from surrealism to contemporary art, Ashgate, Farnham, UK, Burlington, VT, 2013, cover, pp. [1]-3, 5-9, [13]-18, 30, 40, 50, 61, 99-102, ill., indirect image
- Didier Ottinger, Dictionnaire de l'objet surréaliste, Gallimard, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2013, pp. [245], 246, [307], ill.
- Marc Aufraise, Salvador Dalí et la photographie: portraits du surréalisme, 1927-1942, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, 2013, pp. 4, 14, 130, 145, 193-195, 204
- William Jeffett, Juan José Lahuerta, Picasso-Dalí, Dalí-Picasso, Museu Picasso, Salvador Dalí Museum, Sant Petersburg, Barcelona, 2014, p. 40, ill., indirect image
- Dawn Ades, Writings on art and anti-art, Ridinghouse, London, 2015, pp. 537-540, ill., indirect image
- Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Retrospective bust of a woman 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 19, ill., indirect image
- Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Bust de dona retrospectiu 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 19, ill., indirect image
- Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Busto de mujer retrospectivo 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 18, ill., indirect image
- Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Buste de femme rétrospectif 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 18, ill., indirect image
- Laura Bartolomé, "La bellesa involuntària de les escultures Dalí-Brassaï", LA VANGUARDIA, Cultura/s, 02-08/04/2016, Barcelona, pp. 28, 30, 31, ill., indirect image
- Dalí / Duchamp, Royal Academy of Arts, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, London, 2017, p. 122, ill., indirect image
- Dalí : Eurêka !, Somogy. Éditions d'Art, Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret, Paris, Céret, 2017, p. 97, ill.
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Cat. no. OE 3
«Symmetrically» rolled-up bus ticket, forming a rare mechanism of automatism with evident germs of stereotypes
1932-1933
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Cat. no. OE 4
Ornamental Modern Style bread escapes the soft stereotype
1932-1933
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Cat. no. OE 6
The morphological accident of the squeezed toothpaste does not escape the fine ornamental stereotype
1932-1933
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Cat. no. OE 7
Elementary rolling-up obtained from a «mental defective»
1932-1933
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Cat. no. OE 8
Rolled-up bus ticket, found in the pocket of an average bureaucrat (Crédit Lyonnais); the most frequent characteristics of «Modern Style»
1932-1933
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Cat. no. OE 9
The Envelope
c. 1933
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Cat. no. OE 10
Untitled. Automatic object
c. 1933
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Cat. no. OE 11
Piece of cotton wool instantly rolled up and abandoned (category of «aborted automatisms»)
c. 1933
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Cat. no. OE 12
Untitled. Automatic object
c. 1933
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Cat. no. OE 13
Shell
c. 1933
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