- Cat. no. P
- 477
Philosophy illuminated by the light of the moon and the setting sun
Cat. no. P 477
Philosophy illuminated by the light of the moon and the setting sun
1939
Description
- Date:
- 1939
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 128 x 160 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower left corner: Gala Salvador Dali 1939
- Location:
- Private collection, Paris
- Alfonso González Pardo, Lima, Peru
- 1941, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 22-4-1941 - 20-5-1941, cat. no. 8
- 1941, Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Salvador Dali, 23-5-1941 - 14-6-1941, cat. no. 8
- 1941, Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Salvador Dalí, 10-9-1941 - 5-10-1941, cat. no. 18
- 1941, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 19-11-1941 - 11-1-1942, cat. no. 41
- 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. 44
- 1943, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of paintings by Salvador Dali, 15-3-1943 - 12-4-1943, no reference
- 1970, París, Galerie André-François Petit, Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, 1-11-1970 - 31-12-1970, cat. no. 34
- 1979, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18-12-1979 - 21-4-1980, cat. no. 260
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14-5-1980 - 29-6-1980, cat. no. 166
- 1986, Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia, XLII Esposizione internazionale d'arte la biennale di Venezia : arte e scienza, 1-1-1986 - 31-12-1986, p. 105
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13-5-1989 - 23-7-1989, cat. no. 217
- il. 65
- James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dalí, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941, p. 71
- Stephen S. Kaiser, "Salvador Dali's search for heaven", The Pacific Art Review, 21/12/1942, San Francisco, p. 46
- Salvador Dalí, Vida secreta de Salvador Dalí, Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1944, il. 17 (detail)
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Salvador Dalí, Omega, Barcelona, 1950, il. 33
- Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, [1970], il. 34
- Salvador Dali : La Gare de Perpignan accompagnée d'une petite rétrospective, Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, [1977], n. p.
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 315
- A. M. Hammacher, Phantoms of the imagination : fantasy in art and literature from Blake to Dali, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1981, p. 313
- XLII Esposizione internazionale d'arte la biennale di Venezia : arte e scienza, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, 1986, p. 105
- Entender la pintura : Dalí, Orbis - Fabri, Barcelona, 1989, p. 14
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 281
- Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural/Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 35
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 74, p. 74 (detail)
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 207
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 317
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. 179
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