Artist: Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989

Title: Le Sommeil

Date: circa 1955

Medium: Collage of photographic elements with gouache on a photographic base

Signature: Annotated in red marker

Description: This original work is executed on a photograph of the painting "Le Sommeil," 1937, with collage elements from another photograph, taken under the direction of Dalí in the studio of the photographer Gjon Milli in New York. The late Robert Descharnes confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Exhibition history:
Heidelberg, Ausstellung Schlob-Heidelberg (& travelling in Austria, Germany and Switzerland), Salvador Dalí, Bilder, Zeichnungen, Objekte, eine Ausstellung des Museu Perrot-Moore, Cadaquès, 1981-82, no. 26 or no. 27, illustrated; Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Dalí en Argentina, 1986, illustrated; São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Dalí no Brasil, 1986, illustrated; Toulouse, Réfectoire des Jacobins, Salvador Dalí, Huiles, Dessins, Sculptures, 1983-84, illustrated; Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection,
2006, p. 27, illustrated

Dimensions: 11 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.

Framed Dimensions: 31 1/4 x 34 7/8 in.

Inventory Number: 914689