BIB_ID
432841
Accession number
MA 23471.1
Creator
Dalí, Gala, 1894-1982.
Display Date
Beverly Hills, California, 1941 September 15?.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Date of writing from postmark.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mr. James Thrall Soby / Edgartown / Martha's Vineyard / Mass." The address has been crossed out and replaced with "Mountain Spring Rd / Farmington / Con."
Written on the stationery of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Signed "Gala et Dalí," but entirely written in Gala Dalí's hand.
Acquired with two other letters to James Thrall Soby and a signed card, cataloged separately as MA 23471.2-4.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Mr. James Thrall Soby / Edgartown / Martha's Vineyard / Mass." The address has been crossed out and replaced with "Mountain Spring Rd / Farmington / Con."
Written on the stationery of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Signed "Gala et Dalí," but entirely written in Gala Dalí's hand.
Acquired with two other letters to James Thrall Soby and a signed card, cataloged separately as MA 23471.2-4.
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2502, lot 256, 21 March 2019.
Summary
Thanking him for a telegram; promising to send dimensions and photographs of paintings tomorrow, in preparation for an exhibition of Dalí's work at the Museum of Modern Art; mentioning a recent party at the Hotel del Monte (a reference to the "Surrealistic Night in an Enchanted Forest" party organized by Dalí); referring to the successful opening of an "Exposition de Dalí" (a traveling exhibition organized by Julien Levy that had just opened in Los Angeles); saying that they will be returning to New York on the first or second of October and look forward to seeing him there.
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