Soft Skulls and Cranial Harps (Cranes Mous et Harpe Cranienne)

Salvador Dalí, Spanish, 1904 - 1989

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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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