- Cat. no. P
- 185
Étude pour «Le miel est plus doux que le sang» (Study for "Honey is Sweeter than Blood")

Cat. no. P 185
Study for "Honey is Sweeter than Blood"
1926
Description
- Date:
- 1926
- Technique:
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions:
- 37.8 x 46.2 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated on the lower right corner: Salvador Dali / 1926
- Inscriptions:
- Inscribed lower left corner: Etude pour "Le miel est plus douce que la sang"
- Location:
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
- Joë Bousquet
- Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
- Jacques Ulmann
- Former collection J. Ulmann. Private collection, Paris
- Auctioned in Christie's, London, February 9th, 2011
- The inscription in the lower left corner gives the title as
Etude pour "Le miel est plus douce (sic) que la sang" (sic).
- 1956, Knokke Le Zoute, Casino de Knokke Le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 1-7-1956 - 10-9-1956, cat. no. 1
- 1970, París, Galerie André-François Petit, Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, 1-11-1970 - 31-12-1970, cat. no. 3
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13-5-1989 - 23-7-1989, cat. no. 51
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dali, 16-12-1989 - 11-3-1990, cat. no. 11
- 1994, Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ¿Buñuel!, Auge des jahrhunderts, 4-2-1994 - 24-4-1994, p. 223
- 1994, London, Hayward Gallery, Salvador Dalí: the early years, 3-3-1994 - 30-5-1994, cat. no. 96
- 1995, Milano, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Dalí, Miró, Picasso e il surrealismo spagnolo, 29-7-1995 - 22-10-1995, p. 87
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12-9-2004 - 16-1-2005, cat. no. 53
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 1-6-2007 - 9-9-2007, il. 2
- 2012, París, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21-11-2012 - 25-3-2013, p. 94
- 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. 94
- Salvador Dalí, Éditions de la Connaissance, Bruxelles, 1956, p. 20
- Salvador Dalí : oeuvres anciennes, Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, [1970], il. 3
- Salvador Dalí, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Stockholm, 1973/1974, p. 12
- s. a., "Salvador Dalí", Moderna Museet Stockholm, 26/12/1973, Stockholm, p. 12 (detail)
- Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, il. 11, p. 97
- Robert Descharnes, S. Terayama, Dalí: the book of great masters, Zauho, Tokyo, 1978, il. 22 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Le Mythe tragique de l'Angelus de Millet : interprétation paranoïaque-critique, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris, 1978, p. 167 (detail)
- Rafael Santos Torroella, La Miel es más dulce que la sangre : las épocas lorquiana y freudiana de Salvador Dalí, Seix-Barral, Barcelona, 1984, p. 107
- Takahiko Okada, Dalí, Shueisha, [S.l.], 1986, p. 16
- Louisiana revy, [Louisiana Revy], Humlebaek, 1989, p. 10
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 59
- Los Dalís de Dalí: colección del museo nacional centro de arte reina Sofía, Centro cultural/Arte contemporaneo, México D. F., 1990, p. 18
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 79 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí: the early years, South Bank Centre, [London], 1994, p. 169
- ¿Buñuel!, Auge des Jahrhunderts, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1994, p. 223
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 81
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 120
- Dalí, Miró, Picasso e il surrealismo spagnolo, Skira, Milano, 1995, p. 87
- Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Evergreen (Benedikt Taschen), [Köln], 1996, p. 17
- Realismo mágico : Franz Roh y la pintura europea, 1917-1936, Fundación Caja de Madrid, IVAM Centre Julio González / Generalitat Valenciana, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, [Las Palmas de Gran Canaria], [València], Madrid, 1997, p. 57 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Parkstone, England, 1999, p. 42 - 43
- Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Salvador Dalí, Electa, Madrid, 1999, p. 12, p. 13 (2 details)
- Ian Gibson, Dalí joven, Dalí genial, Aguilar, Madrid, 2001, p. 198
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 56
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 56
- Òscar Tusquets, Dalí y otros amigos, RqueR, Barcelona, 2003, p. XIV
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 91
- José María Hinojosa 1904-1936 : entre dos luces, Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27, [Málaga], 2004, p. 95 (detail)
- Pierre Cabanne, La Chambre de Joe Bousquet : enquête et écrits sur une collection, André Dimanche, Marseille, 2005, p. 135
- Rafael Santos Torroella, El Primer Dalí, 1918-1929 : catálogo razonado, IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Generalitat Valenciana. Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Esport, Publicaciones de la Residencia de Estudiantes, [València], [Madrid], 2005, p. 330
- Marta Luna, Toni Matas, Dalí i els altres secrets, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Figueres, 2006, p. 8
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 15
- Dalís medienspiele: falsche fährten und paranoische selbstinszenierungen in den künsten, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2007, p. 142
- Dalí, Lorca y la Residencia de Estudiantes, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], 2010, p. 264
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. 65
- 2011 : Memoria = Memòria, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2012, p. 33 (indirect image)
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 94
- 2012 : Memoria = Memòria, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2013, p. 124 (indirect image)
- Memoria 2013 = Memòria 2013, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2014, p. 124 (detail)
- Catherine Ingram, Andrew Rae (il.), This is Dalí, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2014, p. 28
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 18
- Gabriel Montua, Dalís 20. Jahrhundert : die westliche Kunst zwischen Politik, Markt und Medien, De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, 2015, p. 129
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí. Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Sant Lluís, Menorca, [Figueres], 2016, p. 79
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