Salvador Dalí Illumined Pleasures 1929
- Medium
- Oil and collage on board
- Dimensions
- 9 3/8 x 13 3/4" (23.8 x 34.7 cm)
- Credit
- The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
- Object number
- 584.1967
- Copyright
- © 2024 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Salvador Dalí has 116 works online.
- There are 2,456 paintings online.
Installation views
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The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
Jan 17–Mar 4, 1968
2 other works identified
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To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
16 other works identified
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To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
7 other works identified
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To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
8 other works identified
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To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
12 other works identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
4 other works identified
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
4 other works identified
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Dalí: Painting and Film
Jun 29–Sep 15, 2008
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Dalí: Painting and Film
Jun 29–Sep 15, 2008
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This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.
Galerie Goemans, Paris, 1929 [1]; to Louis Aragon (1897-1982), Paris [2]; [Paul Eluard (1895-1952), Paris] [3]; sold to Julien Levy (1906-1981), Paris/New York; sold to Sidney Janis (1896-1989), New York, 1930 [4]; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967 (The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection).
[1] Included in the exhibition Salvador Dali, Galerie Goemans, Paris, November 20-December 5, 1929.
[2] See Sidney Janis Collection of Modern Paintings, exh. cat. Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, April 5-24, 1935, no. 16 (lists Aragon as previous owner); and Interview with Sidney Janis, June 1967, conducted by Helen M. Franc (The Museum of Modern Art Archives): http://www.moma.org/docs/learn/archives/transcript_janis.pdf
[3] See Julien Levy, Memoir of an Art Gallery, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977, p. 70, p. 72.
[4] Date of acquisition published in: Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, exh. cat. Basel: Kunsthalle et al, 1970, no. 11; Three Generations of Twentieth Century Art: The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1972, p. 178, no. 12.
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