- Cat. no. P
- 723
Sports. The Seven Lively Arts
Celestial Ride

Cat. no. P 723
Sports. The Seven Lively Arts
c. 1957
Description
- Date:
- c. 1957
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 188 x 84 cm
- Signature:
- Signed lower left: S / DALI
- Location:
- Private collection
- Billy Rose, New York
- Georges Farkas, New York
- Alex Maguy, Paris
- French private collection
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, February 4th, 2002
- Suiss private collection
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, June 23rd, 2010
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, June 23rd, 2015
- One of the series of seven compositions for The Seven Lively Arts commissioned by Billy Rose to decorate the Ziegfeld Theater — in this case, the theme is sports. The original seven paintings depicted the arts of radio, concert, ballet, opera, boogie-woogie, cinema and theatre. When they were destroyed in a fire at Billy Rose’s house, the artist agreed to recreate the seven paintings (see catalogue numbers {549}, {588}-{593}).
- 1962, Wallingford, Conn., The Choate School, The Georges Farkas Collections of Old and Modern Art Masterpieces, January - June 1962, no reference
- 1964, Hollywood Boulevard, Municipal Art Gallery, An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Salvador Dalí, 20-11-1964 - 20-12-1964, cat. no. 14
- 1973, París, Alex Maguy. Galerie de l'Elysée, Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dalí, 15-5-1973 - 8-6-1973, no reference
- s. a., "36 Paintings To Be Shown At Choate. Loan Includes Work By Dali, Renoir, Rubens, Van Dyck and Van Gogh", Register, 18/03/1962, New Haven, Conn., n. p.
- Dalí [An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Salvador Dalí], Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood Boulevard, 1964., n. p.
- Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dalí, Alex Maguy. Galerie de l'Elysée, Paris, 1973, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, "Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dali", [galerie de L'elysée], 15/05/1973, Paris, n. p.
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 493
- Montse Gisbert, Salvador Dalí, pinta'm un somni, Serres, Barcelona, 2003, n. p.
- Dalí et le livre d'art, Somogy. Éditions d'Art, Musée Goya, Castres, [París], Castres, 2014, p. 113
- Dia-logos : Ramon Llull's method of thought and artistic practice, ZKM. Center for Art and Media, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - CCCB, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - EPFTL, Lausanne, Karlsruhe, Barcelona, 2018, p. 199
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