Untitled (Desert Landscape)

c. 1933

Salvador Dalí
Spanish, 1904–1989

Status: On View, Gallery 289
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Untitled (Desert Landscape)
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.: 1933
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: none
Dimensions: 18.1 × 14.1 cm (7 1/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mary Reynolds Collection; gift of Frank B. Hubachek
Reference Number: 1989.56
Copyright: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018

Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí 1904-1989. Das Malerische Werk, vol. 1 (Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1993), 231 (ill.), pl. 516, as Ohne Titel (Wüstenlandschaft), Sans titre (Paysage Désertique).
Stephanie D’Alessandro, “Venus de Milo with Drawers” Museum Studies 32, 1 (2006), 64.
Paul B. Franklin, “De ou par Mary Reynolds: The Making of a Collection” Étant donné 8 (2007), 78 (ill.), 102.
Salvador Dalí Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (1910-1964) (Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, 2014: http://www.salvador-dali.org/cataleg_raonat), cat. 378 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 3–Aug. 17, 2003, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris, Sept. 20, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears, Feb. 18–June 12, 2023, no cat.

The artist; given to Mary Reynolds (died 1950), Paris, by 1950 [this and the following according to letter from Frank B. Hubacheck, Feb. 17, 1964, in curatorial object file]; by descent to her brother Frank B. Hubachek, Chicago, 1950 [stored with Elizabeth Humes, Rome, 1950–Oct. 1963 according to signed affidavit of Sept. 10, 1963; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.

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