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Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)

Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)

Salvador Dalí
(Spanish, Figueres 1904–1989 Figueres )

Date: 1954
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76 1/2 x 48 3/4 in. (194.3 x 123.8 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of The Chester Dale Collection, 1955
Accession Number: 55.5
Rights and Reproduction: © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Not on view
Description Object Information Related Objects Online Resources Video Audio
Dalí fused his interests in Catholicism, mathematics, and science to create this new interpretation of an oft-depicted subject. Levitating before a hypercube-a geometric, multi-dimensional form-Christ has an almost athletic physique that bears no signs of torture. The artist's wife, Gala, poses as a devotional figure, witnessing Christ's spiritual triumph over corporeal harm.
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Signed (lower right): Salvador Dali

  • Exhibition History

    Rome. Sale dell'Aurora Pallavicini. "Mostra di quadri, disegni ed oreficerie, Dalí," 1954, no. 4 (as "Corpus ipercubicus").

    New York. Carstairs Gallery. "Dalí," December 1954–January 1955 (as "Corpus hibercubus").

    Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "Salvador Dalí: Rétrospective 1920–1980," December 18, 1979–April 14, 1980, no. 318.

    London. Tate Gallery. "Salvador Dalí," May 14–June 29, 1980, no. 318.

    Tokyo. Isetan Museum of Art. "Retrospective Salvador Dalí," February 28–April 6, 1982.

    Daimaru Museum, Osaka. "Retrospective Salvador Dalí," April 22–May 29, 1982.

    Kitakyushu Municipal Museum. "Retrospective Salvador Dalí," May 8–June 6, 1982.

    Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum. "Retrospective Salvador Dalí," June 11–July 11, 1982.

    Barcelona. Palau Reial de Pedralbes. "400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983," June 10–July 30, 1983.

    Mexico City. Museo Rufino Tamayo. "Dos Obras Maestras de Salvador Dali," March 12–April 20, 1986.

    Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. "Salvador Dalí, 1904–1989," May 13–July 23, 1989.

    Spanish Pavilion, Seville World's Fair. "Treasures of Spanish Art," April 20–October 21, 1992.

    Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. "Dalí's Optical Illusions," January 21–March 26, 2000.

    Washington, D. C. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. "Dalí's Optical Illusions," April 19–June 18, 2000.

    Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Dalí," February 16–May 15, 2005.

    Cologne. Museum Ludwig. "Salvador Dali: La gare de Perpignan: Pop, op, yes yes, pompier," March 18–June 25, 2006.

  • References

    Theodore Rousseau, Jr. "New Accessions of Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 14 (April 1956), p. 198, ill. p. 204.

    Crucifixion. Exh. cat., Salvador Dalí Museum. St. Petersburg, Florida, 1994, ill. cover.

    Michael Taylor, ed. The Dalí Renaissance: New Perspectives on His Life and Art after 1940. An International Symposium. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2008, pp. 9–10, 14, 45, 167, 178, 209, ill. on cover (color) and fig. 8.

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