City of Drawers

Prints and Drawings

1936

Salvador Dalí
Spanish, 1904-1989

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: City of Drawers
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.: 1936
Medium: Graphite on buff wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right, in black ink: "Salvidor Dali 1936"
Dimensions: 35.2 × 52.2 cm (13 7/8 × 20 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Frank B. Hubachek
Reference Number: 1963.3
Copyright: © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018

Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Dalí (New York, 1964) (ill.).
Michael Canney, “Surrealism & Dada Revisited,” Art International X:5 (May 1966), p. 21 (ill.).
A. R. Morse, Salvador Salvador Dalí: A Guide to His Works in Public Museums (Cleveland, Ohio, 1974), p. 6 (ill.).
Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí (New York, 1976), p. 11, fig. 120.
Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean, Drawing from Life (Fort Worth, 1992), p. 255 (ill.).
Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret, Savador Dalí, 1904-1989: The Paintings 1904-1946 (New York, 1997), p. 278 and 756, no. 625 (ill.).

Santa Barbara, University of California, “Surrealism: A State of Mind,” Feb. 26-Mar. 27, 1966, cat. 37 (ill.).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, “Dalí,” Nov. 21, 1970-Jan. 10, 1971, cat. 110 (ill.).
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden, “Dalí,” Jan. 29-Apr. 18, 1971, p. 213. cat. 91.
Denmark, Humlebaek Museum, “Dalí,” Sept. 29-Nov. 25, 1973, cat. 56 (ill.); also Stockholm, De. 26, 1973-Feb. 13, 1974 and Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie und Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Mar. 14-May 5, 1974.
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, “Salvador Dalí,” Dec. 18, 1979-Apr. 21, 1980, cat. 200 (ill.); also the Tate Gallery, London, May 14-June 29, 1980.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” Nov. 28, 1984-Jan. 27, 1985.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 210-211, cat. 99 (ill.); also The St. Louis Art Museum, Mar. 10–May 16, 1986.
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, “Zauber der Medusa: europäische Manierismen,” Apr. 3-July 12, 1987, pp. 572-573, cat. 31 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display,” Jan. 30-Apr. 28, 1992, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Shatter, Rupture, Break,” Feb. 15-May 3, 2015.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Salvador Dali: The Image Disappears”, February 18 - June 12, 2023.

Private collection, England [Rotterdam, 1970]. Sold by Walter Goetz (1911-1995), Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.

20 Salvador Dalí, City of Drawers, 1936

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