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The Great Masturbator

Real-world connection

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Date
1929-01-01
Real-world link
Real-world connection

Location relations

Each kind of real-world link is kept separate — a documented viewpoint is never merged with a depicted place or a creation location.

Created in this area — general area
Cadaqués

Where the original is now

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
In the collection of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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Sources

  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid — collection record for Salvador Dalí, ‘The Great Masturbator’ (‘El gran masturbador’), 1929, oil on canvas, 110 × 150 cm; Dalí bequest to the Spanish State, 1989 (museoreinasofia.es)
  • Robert Descharnes & Gilles Néret, ‘Salvador Dalí: The Paintings’ (Taschen catalogue raisonné), no. 314; Dawn Ades, ‘Dalí’ (Thames & Hudson, 1982)
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