Salvador Dalí

Wallace Laboratories, New Jersey (commissioned from the artist in 1958)
Ted Caplow, Englewood, New Jersey & Charlottesville, Virginia (a gift from the above)
Gifted from the above on October 15, 1974

San Francisco, Civic Auditorium, American Medical Association Convention, 1958

Ira Henry Freeman, “Dalí Gives a View of Tranquility” in The New York Times, June 5, 1958, illustrated on the front page
Dalí (exhibition catalogue), Centre Pompidou, Paris & Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2013, illustration of Crisalida p. 51

Work is in generally good condition. Executed on plexi-glass panel mounted in wooden light-box. The paint layer is well preserved though the surface shows scattered nicks and scratches throughout. There is a repaired crack running from the upper right corner, through the staff, to the center of the right edge. Scattered chips and scuffs around extreme edges, otherwise fine.
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