Soft Skulls and Cranial Harps (Cranes Mous et Harpe Cranienne)
Salvador Dalí, Spanish, 1904 - 1989
1935, printed about 1972
Etching on paper
about 30
Impression: 14 1/2 × 11 13/16 in. (36.8 × 30 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/2 × 18 in. (57.1 × 45.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund
2006.62
Geography
Place Made: Spain, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Course History
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
Writing 7.2, Writers on Writing, Wendy Piper, Spring 2014
THEA 17, 19th and 20th century Performance, Laura Edmondson, Spring 2014
WRIT 7.2, Writers on Writing, Wendy Piper, Spring 2015
Spanish 80.26, USA in Lorca, Buñuel & Dalí, José del Pino, Spring 2024
Writing 7.45.01, The Poetics of Surrealism, John Barger, Spring 2024
Writing 7.45.02, The Poetics of Surrealism, John Barger, Spring 2024
Published References
Michler-Lopsinger 56; Salvador Dali Retrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979, no. 113.
Provenance
Blue Moon Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2006.
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