L’Arpa de Napoleó (Napoleon's Harp), Circa 1930-1935
Oil on canvas
Signed “Salvador Dali” lower right
60×73cm
Provenance:
- Galerias Costa, Barcelona
- Galerie Barbié, Barcelona
- Collection Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn, Paris
Exhibition: Barcelona, Galeries d'Art Catalònia:
“Exposició Logicofobista,” May 4-15, 1936, no. 31
Bibliography:
- M. Frisach, "Dalí i Àngel Planells, una relació ambigua," in Avui, November 13, 2003, reproduced on p. 53
- Valladolid, Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, "Logicofobistas 1936. El surrealismo como revolución del espíritu," September 13–November 16, 2018, cited in the catalog p. 24, 32 and reproduced p. 80
- A. Vives, "Àngel Planells' Art and the Surrealist Canon," Routledge, New York-London, 2024, pp. 15, 53, 61, 65, 66, 74
We would like to thank Dr. Anna Vives and Mr. Guillermo de Osma for the information they kindly provided us about this work.
