id: 162080 accession number: 2001.34 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.34 updated: 2022-01-04 17:30:26.917000 The Dream, 1931. Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989). Oil on canvas; framed: 120 x 120 x 7.7 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.); unframed: 96 x 96 cm (37 13/16 x 37 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2001.34 © Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: The Dream title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1931 creation date earliest: 1931 creation date latest: 1931 current location: 225 German Expressionism & Surrealism creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Spain (Catalonia), 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 120 x 120 x 7.7 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 96 x 96 cm (37 13/16 x 37 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: La Révolution surréaliste opening date: 2002-03-06T00:00:00 La Révolution surréaliste. Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris cedex O4, France (organizer) (March 6-June 24, 2002). title: Dalí opening date: 2004-09-12T00:00:00 Dalí. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (September 12, 2004-January 16, 2005); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (February 16-May 30, 2005). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). title: Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939) opening date: 2006-10-15T00:00:00 Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (March 4-June 3, 2007). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 21, 2005 - September 11, 2005). --- PROVENANCE Vicomte Charles [1891-1981] and Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles [1902-1970], Paris, by exchange to Félix Labisse date: c. 1930 - c. 1945-1951 footnotes: * The Vicomte Charles de Noailles, Dalí's most important patron during his early Surrealist years, may have purchased the painting directly from Dalí, although further research is required to confirm or disprove this speculation. The Noailles certainly owned the painting by 1931, when they are listed as its owners in an exhibition at the Galerie Pierre Colle in Paris. citations: Félix Labisse [1905-1982], Neuilly-sur-Seine, France date: By 1952 - at least 1972 footnotes: * Françoise Hersaint, wife of Surrealist collector Claude Hersaint and good friend of Labisse, thought that Labisse had acquired The Dream from the Noailles by exchange between 1945 and 1951, and recalled that when she first visited Labisse's home in 1952, the painting was already in his collection. Labisse certainly had the painting by 1956, when he is listed as its owner in a Dalí exhibition at the Casino de Knokke in Belgium. citations: Gerrit Lansing [1942-2010] New York date: Before 1999 footnotes: citations: Daniel Filipacchi [b. 1928] Paris/New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art Transfer Mode: Unknown date: By 1999 - 2001 footnotes: * Weisberger, Edward. Surrealism, Two Private Eyes: The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections. New York, N.Y.: Guggenheim Museum, 1999. citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 2001- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Dali and other Surrealist artists created images depicting strange juxtapositions that are sometimes referred to as "dreamscapes." digital description: wall description: The Dream gives visual form to the strange, often disturbing world of dreams and hallucinations. Ants cluster over the face of the central figure, obscuring the mouth, while the sealed, bulging eyelids suggest the sensory confusion and frustration of a dream. The man at the far left - with a bleeding face and amputated left foot - refers to the classical myth of Oedipus, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. The column that grows from the man’s back and sprouts into a bust of a bearded man refers to the Freudian father, the punishing superego who suppresses the son’s sexual fantasies. In the distance, two men embrace, one holding a golden key or scepter symbolizing access to the unconscious. Behind them, a naked man reaches into a permeable red form, as if trying to enter it. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Pierre Colle (Firm). Exposition Salvador Dalí: du 3 au 15 juin 1931. Paris: Pierre Colle, 1931. page number: url: Exposition internationale du surréalisme, and André Breton. The International Surrealist Exhibition: Thursday, June 11th to Saturday, July 4th, 1936, New Burlington Galleries. London: International Surrealist Exhibition, English Committee, 1936. page number: url: Pauwels, Louis. Salvador Dalí Exposition, Knokke Le Zoute-Albert Plage, Casino Communal, 1 juillet-10 septembre 1956. Bruxelles: Éditions de la Connaissance, 1956. page number: url: Der surrealismus 1922-1942. München: Ausstellunseitung Hans der Kunst, 1972. page number: url: Martin-Méry, Gilberte. Bosch, Goya, et le fantastique; catalogue. Bordeaux, 20 mai-31 juillet, 1957. [Bordeaux]: [Imprimeries Delmas], 1957.


 page number: url: Sylvain Bellenger, email to William Robinson, April 13, 2001, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 59' Mentioned: p. 58-59, 118 url: "A Selection of Museum Acquisitions." Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors (December 2001): 56. page number: Reproduced: p. 56 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Salvador Dali Painting Acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art,” April 20, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4385 Spies, Werner. La révolution surréaliste: exposition présentée au Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1, 6 mars-24 juin 2002. Paris, France: Centre Pompidou, 2002. page number: Reproduced: p. 205 url: Spies, Werner. Die surrealistische Revolution. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2002. page number: Reproduced: p. 209 url: Spies, Werner. Der Surrealismus: Kanon einer Bewegung. Köln, Germany: DuMont, 2003. page number: Reproduced: p. 119 url: Ades, Dawn. Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 152-153 url: Robinson, William H., Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2006. page number: Reproduced: p. 352 url: Kolberg, Gerhard. Salvador Dalí: la Gare de Perpignan ; Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier ; [Museum Ludwig, Köln, 18. März bis 25. Juni 2006]. Ostfildern. Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. page number: Reproduced: p, 53, fig. 58 url: Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 314-315 url: Grenier, Catherine, and David Radzinowicz. Salvador Dalí: The Making of an Artist. Paris: Flammarion, 2012. page number: Reproduced: P. 113 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 23 url: Bergez, Daniel, and Kate Deimling. Painting the Dream: From the Biblical Dream to Surrealism. New York; London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2018. page number: Reproduced: P. 234, no. 177 url: Poullain, Christine, Dir. Le rêve. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 21, fig. 3 url: Roglán, Mark A. Spanish Art in America. Madrid, Spain : Ediciones El Viso 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 83 url: Bergez, Daniel. Peindre le rêve: des rêves bibliques au surréalisme.
Paris : Citadelles & Mazenod, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 233; reproduced p. 234. url: Descharnes, Robert, and Gilles Néret. Salvador Dali: The Paintings 1904-1989. Köln: Taschen, 2019. page number: Reproduced: P. 165, no. 361 url: --- IMAGES