Paintings by Salvador Dali (21 November-10 December 1934).
One color illus. reproducing a work by the artist. Single folded sheet forming [4] pp. New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1934.
The exhibition catalogue for Dali’s second solo exhibition with influential gallerist Julien Levy (1906-81), adorned on the first page with imagery designed by the artist. It opens with a short body of text, presumably by the artist: “‘Snap-Shot Photographs in Color’ of subconscious images, surrealist, extravagant, paranoiac hypnagogical, extra-pictorial, phenomenal, super-abundant, super-sensitive, etc.…of Concrete Irrationality…”
A total of 22 paintings are listed, two with notes on the lenders Joseph Cornell and Frank Crowninshield.
Near fine; faint vertical creases. Manuscript note to the fourth page.
|| I. Schaffner & L. Jacobs, eds., Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery (1998), p. 177.
Price: $1,000.00
Item ID: 11570
