The Image Disappears

1938

Salvador Dalí
Spanish, 1904-1989

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: The Image Disappears
Place: Spain (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1938
Medium: Pen and black ink on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed, signed, and dated, lower left: "Fait expressément pour étoner [sic] Galutska / Gala" (done especially to amaze Galutzka/Gala) / Salvador Dali 1938"
Dimensions: 64.7 × 50.8 cm (25 1/2 × 20 in.)
Credit Line: A Gift from Lindy and Edwin Bergman
Reference Number: 1986.861
Copyright: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018

Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 106-07, cat. 54 (color ill.).

Probably, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, untitled group exhibition, 1939, cat. 19.
Possibly, New York, Julien Levy Gallery, “A Decade of Painting, 1929-1939,” 1940, cat. 46-48, as “Drawing.”
Possibly, Art Institute of Chicago, “The Nineteenth International Exhibitions of Watercolors,” 1940, cat. 108.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Chicago Collectors,” 1963, p. 5, as “Self-Portrait with Hidden Image of Vereer Interior.”
Chicago, Arts Club, “Drawings 1916/1966,” 1966, cat. 17, as “Disappearing Self-Portrait after Vermeer,”
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” 1984–1985, p. 135 (ill.), as “The Image Disappears (Self-Portrait).”
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Salvador Dali: The Image Disappears”, February 18 - June 12, 2023.

Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, by 1939; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1961; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

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