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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.227
People
Salvador Dali, Spanish (Figueres, Spain 1904 - 1989 Figueres, Spain)
Title
Composition 1937 - Figures of Drawers
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Cannibalisme des tiroirs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1937
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296890

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and gray ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 54.9 x 75.9 cm (21 5/8 x 29 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: Gala Salvador Dali 1937

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Pierre Colle, Paris], sold; to Allan Roos,late 1930s, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957.

NOTE: See letter from Allan Roos (Feb. 19, 1958) in curatorial file: "I bought it in the late '30's in Paris from the gallery then run by Pierre Colle which to the best of my knowledge no longer exists. I have some vague impression that this gallery was run not only by Pierre Colle but Loeb as well but I have not seen it on any recent trip to Paris, not heard it referred to or found it listed in 'Arts et Spectacles.'"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Allan Roos
Copyright
© Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.227
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sidney Simon and Emily S. Rauh, 20th Century Master Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 24
  • Surrealism, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 7, detail repr. on cover
  • Una E. Johnson, 20th Century Drawings, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1964), pl. 94
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz, Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1967), p. 437, fig. 18-11
  • Daniel Abadie, Salvador Dalí rétrospective 1920-1980, exh. cat., Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, France, 1979), pl. 204
  • Simon Wilson, Salvador Dali, exh. cat., Tate Britain (London, England, 1980), no. 137
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, fig. 84, p. 96
  • Karin v. Maur, Salvador Dali (1904-1989), exh. cat., Verlag Gerd Hatje (Stuttgart, Germany, 1989), no. 157, repr.
  • Karen Meekyong Kim, "'As if He Wasn't There': Obstacles and Imagination in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Work and Life", Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997-1998), p. 25
  • [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1997-1998)., repr. p. 25
  • Dawn Ades, ed., Dalí, exh. cat., Bompiani Arte (Milan, 2004), cat. no. 166, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Surrealism, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1963 - 05/31/1963
  • 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11/06/1963 - 01/05/1964; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 02/03/1964 - 03/15/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/06/1964 - 05/24/1964
  • Salvador Dalí rétrospective 1920-1980, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Cedex 04, 12/18/1979 - 04/14/1980
  • Salvador Dali, Tate Britain, London, 05/14/1980 - 06/29/1980
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
  • Salvador Dali 1904-1989, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 05/12/1989 - 07/23/1989; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 08/18/1989 - 10/22/1989
  • The Body Politic: Surrealism on Both Sides of the Atlantic 1924 - 1947, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1995 - 01/07/1996
  • Salvador Dalí, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia, 09/12/2004 - 01/16/2005; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 02/16/2005 - 05/30/2005
  • Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2013 - 06/01/2013
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/28/2022 - 10/31/2022
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/15/2016 - 01/08/2017

Verification Level

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