Portrait of My Father
Portrait of My Father | |
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Artist | Salvador Dalí |
Year | 1925 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 104,5 cm × 104,5 cm (41.1 in × 41.1 in) |
Location | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona |
Portrait of My Father is an oil on canvas painting by Salvador Dalí, created in 1925, depicting his father, Salvador Rafael Aniceto Dalí Cusí. It is now in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, in Barcelona.
History
Dalí held his first exhibition at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona in 1925, before making his first trip to Paris and moving towards Surrealism. This portrait is considered one of the best from his early period. Dalí focused on the severe expression of his face and especially in the piercing eyes. The portrait demonstrates the forceful character of his father, who was a notary in Figueres, and with whom he had a difficult relationship. The technical mastery the young painter had already achieved at this time can be noticed in the cleanly drawn outlines, the treatment of light and shade and the expressive power of the sombre tone.[1]
Exhibits
- 1925, Barcelona, Galeries Dalmau[2]
- 1962, Madrid, Casón del Buen Retiro[3]
- 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery[4]
- 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne[5]
- 1983, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo[6]
- 1985, London, Hayward Gallery[7]
- 1986, Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage[8]
- 1987, Kobe, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art[9]
- 1987, Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina[10]
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie[11]
- 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art[12]
- 1994, London, Hayward Gallery [13]
- 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool[14]
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi[15]
- 2007, London, Tate Modern[16]
- 2007, Madrid, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza - Fundación Caja Madrid[17]
See also
References
- ^ Artwork commented at museum's website
- ^ Exposició S. Dalí, núm. cat. 5, il.
- ^ Exposición de pintura catalana : desde la prehistoria hasta nuestros días, núm. cat. 187, il.
- ^ Salvador Dalí : exhibition - Japan 1964, núm. cat. 11
- ^ Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, núm. cat. 18
- ^ 400 obras de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, núm. cat. 96
- ^ Homage to Barcelona : the city and its arts, 1888-1936, núm. cat. 58
- ^ Trésors de Barcelone, núm. cat. 46
- ^ Homage to Catalonia - Barcelona art city, núm. cat. 116
- ^ Homenatge a Barcelona : la ciutat i les seves arts, 1888 -1936, núm. cat. 218
- ^ Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, núm. cat. 41
- ^ Salvador Dalí, núm. cat. 5
- ^ Salvador Dalí: the early years, núm. cat. 65
- ^ Salvador Dalí: a mythology, núm. cat. 1
- ^ Dalí, núm. cat. 34
- ^ Dalí & Film, Fig. 66
- ^ El Espejo y la máscara : el retrato en el siglo de Picasso, núm. cat. 76
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- List of works
- Landscape Near Figueras (1910)
- Vilabertran (1913)
- Cabaret Scene (1922)
- Portrait of My Father (1925)
- Young Woman at a Window (1925)
- The Basket of Bread (1926)
- Apparatus and Hand (1927)
- The Lugubrious Game (1929)
- The First Days of Spring (1929)
- The Accommodations of Desire (1929)
- The Great Masturbator (1929)
- The Invisible Man (1929–1932)
- The Persistence of Memory (1931)
- The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934)
- Morphological Echo (1934–1936)
- A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano (1936)
- Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936, 1937)
- Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936)
- The Burning Giraffe (1937)
- Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937)
- Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)
- Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
- The Enigma of Hitler (1939)
- Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939)
- The Face of War (1940)
- Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)
- Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943)
- The Seven Lively Arts (1944)
- Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944)
- Basket of Bread (1945)
- The Apotheosis of Homer (1945)
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)
- The Elephants (1948)
- Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949)
- Leda Atomica (1949)
- The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949)
- Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951)
- Galatea of the Spheres (1952)
- The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–1954)
- The Colossus of Rhodes (1954)
- Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)
- Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954)
- The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955)
- Living Still Life (1956)
- The Seven Lively Arts (1957)
- The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59)
- The Ecumenical Council (1959–60)
- Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963)
- La Gare de Perpignan (1965)
- Tuna Fishing (1966–67)
- The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–1970)
- La Toile Daligram (1972)
- Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (1972–1973)
- Lincoln in Dalivision (1977)
- The Swallow's Tail (1983)
- Lobster Telephone (1936)
- Lobster dress (1937)
- Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
- Champagne Standard Lamps (1938)
- Rainy Taxi (1938)
- A Logician Devil (1951)
- Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937)
- The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942)
- Dali's Mustache (1954) (with Philippe Halsman)
- Être Dieu (1985)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- L'Age d'Or (1930)
- Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)
- Destino (1946, completed 2003)
and costumes
- Mariana Pineda (1927 production)
- Gala Dalí (wife)
- Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation
- Paranoiac-critical method
- Salvador Dalí and dance
- Chupa Chups
- Dalí Atomicus (1948 photograph)
- Salvador Dalí (1966 film)
- The Death of Salvador Dali (2005 film)
- Little Ashes (2008 film)
- Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
- Dalíland (2022 film)
- "Salvador Dalí" (song)
- 2919 Dali (asteroid)
- Dali crater
- Salvador Dalí Desert
- Dalí cross