La libre inclinación del deseo (The Free Inclination of Desire) Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)

1930

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Oil on board

Dimensions

15 1/2 × 12 in. (39.37 × 30.48 cm)

Credit Line

Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection

Accession Number

2006.52.98

Culture

Spanish

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
The artist, New York; given to Helena Rubenstein (1870–1965), New York [see note 1]; by descent to the Estate of Helena Rubenstein (Princess Gourielli); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 20, 1966, lot 66; sold to Charles B. Benenson (1913–2004), New York, April 20, 1966 [see note 2]; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2004

Note 1: According to expertise provided by Archives Descharnes, Azay-Le-Rideau, France, June 2011 (copy in curatorial object file)

Note 2: Sotheby’s sale records, “Rose’s Cards,” courtesy Sotheby’s, New York, March 2023 (copy in accession file)
Bibliography
  • Cathleen Chaffee, Eye on a Century: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 170, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2007," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 238
  • Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, The Collection of Helena Rubinstein (Princess Gourielli), New York, Paris and London, Sold by Order of the Executors of Her Estate. Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part One, sale cat. (1966), 121, no. 66, fig. 66
Object copyright
© Salvador Dali, Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Signed

Signed and dated '30 lower right

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