Portrait of My Father

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Portrait of My Father
Artist	Salvador Dalí
Year	1925
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	104,5 cm × 104,5 cm (41.1 in × 41.1 in)
Location	Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Portrait of My Father is a 1925 painting by Salvador Dalí of his father, Salvador Rafael Aniceto Dalí Cusí, currently exhibited at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

History[]

Dalí held his first exhibition at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona in 1925, before making his first trip to Paris and turning towards Surrealism. One of the most outstanding paintings in the exhibition, considered one of the best from his early period, is this portrait of his father. Dalí concentrated on the severe expression of the face and, especially in the piercing eyes, on the forceful character of his father, a notary in Figueres, with whom he had a difficult relationship. The technical mastery the young painter had achieved at that time can be seen in the cleanly drawn outlines, the treatment of light and shade and the expressive power of the sombre tone.^[1]

Exhibits[]

• 1925, Barcelona, Galeries Dalmau^[2]
• 1962, Madrid, Casón del Buen Retiro^[3]
• 1964, Tokyo, Tokyo Prince Hotel Gallery^[4]
• 1979, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne^[5]
• 1983, Madrid, ^[6]
• 1985, London, Hayward Gallery^[7]
• 1986, Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage^[8]
• 1987, Kobe, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art^[9]
• 1987, Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina^[10]
• 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie^[11]
• 1989, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art^[12]
• 1994, London, Hayward Gallery ^[13]
• 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool^[14]
• 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi^[15]
• 2007, London, Tate Modern^[16]
• 2007, Madrid, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza - Fundación Caja Madrid^[17]

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