Lot no. 7
Àngel Planells (Cadaqués, 1901 - Barcelona, 1989)
L'Arpa de Napoleó (Napoleon's Harp), Circa 1930-1935
Oil on canvas
Signed "Salvador Dali" lower right
60×73cm
Provenance :
- Galerias Costa, Barcelona
- Barbié Gallery, Barcelona
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn Collection, Paris
Exhibition: Barcelona, Galeries d'Art Catalònia :
"Exposició Logicofobista", 4 - 15 May 1936, n°31
Bibliography :
- M. Frisach, "Dalí i Àngel Planells, una relació ambigua", in Avui, 13 November 2003, reproduced p.53
- Valladolid, Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, "Logicofobistas 1936. El surrealismo como revolución del espíritu", 13 September -16 November 2018, cited in the catalogue p. 24, 32 and reproduced p.80
- A. Vives, "Àngel Planells' Art and the Surrealist Canon", Routledge, New York-London, 2024, p.15, 53, 61, 65, 66, 74
We would like to thank Dr Anna Vives and Mr Guillermo de Osma for the information they kindly provided on this work.
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About the sale10/14/2025
Catalog
The Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn Collection. The surrealist woman. Part II
75008 Paris - France