Artwork Details
Description
This untitled oil "Persistence of Fair Weather" is so called because of its close relationship to a miniature known as "Coiffeur Distressed by the Persistence of Fair Weather" (oil on canvas, 1934). Lídia Nogués (the half-mad fisherwoman), who lived in area, helped Dalí and Gala during the early years. The son of Lídia is seen holding an octopus in both paintings that are dominated by the same intense blue sky. Both of Lídia’s sons were finally admitted to an asylum and died young. The cranial deformations could have also resulted for the paranoiac-critical revision of a medical anomaly, hydrocephalus, once seen by Dalí as a young child. Since the elongated protrusion is being held up by a crutch, it probably also relates to Dalí’s fear of impotence.
Gala is seen here, nude from the waist down, wearing the famous embroidered jacket. A fetish object--a slipper with a long appendage--appears on the wall. Dalí’s preoccupation with the architect to Philip II of Spain, Juan de Herrera’s and the Spanish mystic Ramon Llull’s writing’s of cubic form, is evident in Dalí’s treatment of the walls of Port Lligat.
Exhibition History:
1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, “Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965”
1997, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, "Treasures from the Salvador Dalí Museum"
1998, Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol Museum of Art, “Dali at the Warhol”
1999, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, "Dali Exhibition 1999"
1999, Shinjuku(Tokyo), Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, "Dali Exhibition 1999"
2004, Washington D.C., The Castle-Smithsonian, “Eight Wonders of the Salvador Dali Museum”
2004, Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, “Dalí”
2009, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, "Salvador Dalí : Liquid Desire"
2014, Sao Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, "Salvador Dali"
2014, Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultura Banco do Brasil, "Salvador Dali"
2015, San Francisco, Walt Disney Family Museum, "Disney and Dali: Architects of the Imagination"
2016, St. Petersburg, The Dali Museum, "Disney and Dali: Architects of the Imagination"
2021, Seoul, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, "Salvador Dali: Imagination and Reality"