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Landscape with a Girl Skipping Rope

Landscape with a Girl Skipping Rope

Salvador Dalí (in 1936)

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  • Zoe DeFord asked

    Hello,
    I was wondering how long you guys would have Landscape with a Girl Skipping Rope on display at your museum? I want to make sure I am able to see it!
    Thank you,
    Zoe DeFord

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Dear Zoe, our museum is closed for renovation and the painting is on loan in Antwerp. You can see it in the next five years at the KMSKA. Kind regards, Els

  • Myrthe Steijaert asked

    Hallo,
    Voor mijn studie ben ik op dit moment bezig met een eigen onderzoekje naar het 'Landschap met touwtje springend meisje' van Salvador Dalí. Ik ben onder andere opzoek naar literatuur die mij iets kan vertellen over de interpretatie van dit werk. Echter blijkt dit nogal lastig te vinden. Het werk is onderdeel van de museumcollectie en daarom vroeg ik me af of u mij misschien hierbij zou kunnen helpen.
    Met vriendelijke groet, Myrthe Steijaert

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Hallo Myrthe, op de online collectie van Boijmans staat het stuk dat Marijke Peyser in de bestandscatalogus (Een droomcollectie) over het drieluik heeft geschreven. Ik denk dat je daar wel wat aan hebt. Onderaan staan ook voetnoten waarmee je primaire literatuur kunt vinden. Hier is de link: https://www.boijmans.nl/collectie/kunstwerken/4230/landschap-met-touwtje-springend-meisje
    Succes en hartelijke groet, Els

  • Sam Heyndrickx asked

    hoe kan je zien dat dit schilderij surrealistsich is?

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Hallo Sam, het surrealisme is inderdaad geen stijl met specifieke herkenbare kenmerken. Integendeel, het surrealisme kent heel veel verschillende uitingen in allerlei media en disciplines (ook literatuur, mode, theater, film) en is soms zelfs vrijwel abstract. Je moet als kijker op zoek naar de de achtergrond van het werk: vanuit welke visie op de werkelijkheid is het gemaakt? Voor de surrealisten was (en is, er wordt nog steeds surrealistische kunst gemaakt) de werkelijkheid groter dan wat je met je rationele verstand kan zien en bevatten. Bij de werkelijkheid horen bijvoorbeeld ook dromen, hallucinaties en verlangens, toeval en spel, mooie en afstotelijke dingen. Dit schilderij van Salvador Dalí is vervreemdend door de enorme ruimte, de lange schaduwen, het lijkt op de werkelijkheid van een droom. Dalí was dan ook geïnteresseerd in de ideeën van de Oostenrijkse psychiater Sigmund Freud, over hoe onderdrukte gedachten en verlangens terugkomen in de dromen van mensen (Traumdeutung). Hopelijk heb je hier wat aan. Hartelijke groet,
    Els

  • Elly McCausland asked

    Hello! I would like to reproduce this image on the Journal of Victorian Culture blog, within an academic blog post. Could you let me know if this is possible and what credit line I should use?

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Hi Elly, Please send your request to images@boijmans.nl. They can help you with your question.

  • Aaron asked

    I am writing a paper for my university course and was interested to know what methods or devices were used in the restoration of this painting.

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Dear Aaron, we have made an in depth video discussing the restauration process. You can find it on the object page on our online collection (under the tab Photo & Video). There's also an exhibition website on the public restauration (in Dutch) in which the different steps of the process are outlined: https://www.boijmans.nl/tentoonstellingen/openbare-restauratie-schilderij-dali. If next to this, you need more detailed info, please let me know. Best, Rianne Schoonderbeek (schoonderbeek@boijmans.nl)

  • Max Tieland asked

    Hoe groot is dit doek?

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Beste Max, de afmetingen vind je onder specificaties op de objectpagina op Collectie Boijmans Online! Groeten Rianne

  • rose asked

    Is the frame around the painting "Girl Skipping Rope" the original frame?

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Hi Rose, the frame on the outsides of the side panels is original, the rest of the frame has been constructed recently. It was clear that part of the frame was missing, but unfortunately we don't know exactly what the original state was. We therefore had to construct a reasonable facsimile of the frame. Best, Rianne

  • Alyssa asked

    What was Salvador's main idea behind this painting. What is the story behind it?

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Hi Alyssa, you find some specific information on this painting on the object page on Collection Boijmans Online: http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/object/4230. Furthermore, you can find more info on surrealism here: http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/in-depth/surrealism, and here: http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/in-depth/madaboutsurrealism. Best, Rianne

  • Ailsa asked

    Hi, I've just seen the Landscape with a girl skipping rope in Edinburgh. Could you tell me the dimensions? It's very impressive! Thanks, Ailsa.

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Hi Ailsa, you can find the dimensions on the object page of Collection Boijmans Online, under specifications. Link: http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/object/4230 Great to hear you liked the work, we also love it! Best, Rianne

  • Desiree asked

    Do you know if this triptych was originally conceived as a paravent, thus serving as a piece of furniture? Where exactly did Edward James display it in his house? Many thanks

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Dear Desiree, thanks for this interesting question! No, it has never been used as a paravent. It was painted for Edward James' Monkton House and got damaged during WWII, after which it was transferred to West Dean. There, only the central panel was hung, the side panels were given on loan to the Tate. All the best, Saskia van Kampen-Prein

  • Natalia asked

    Hello, i visited the museum in Saturday and I can seem to find the quote by Dali that is next to his painting: landscape with the girl in the rope. I was wondering if you could briefly remind me what this quote was!

    Thank you so much, your museum is beautiful

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    'I try to create fantastic things, things like in a dream. The world needs more fantasy. Our civilization is too mechanical. We can make the fantastic real, and then it is more real than that which actually exists.' Salvador Dalí, 1940

  • Patrick asked

    Waarom is dit een drieluik?

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

    Dag Patrick, een drieluik is een schilderij dat uit drie delen bestaat. Altaarstukken in kerken zijn vaak drieluiken, de zijdelen kunnen dan met behulp van scharnieren dichtgeklapt worden, net als een luik voor een raam. Dit werk kan niet dichtgeklapt worden maar bestaat wel uit drie delen en wordt daarom een drieluik genoemd. Hartelijke groeten, Rianne

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Dalí made this triptych for the house of Edward James, the eccentric Englishman who supported him financially. The girl with a skipping rope symbolises a happy childhood memory. Her form is echoed by that of the bell in the tower. The figures on the right, one half skinned, could be Dalí and his dead older brother after whom he was named.

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Specifications

Title Landscape with a Girl Skipping Rope
Material and technique Oil on canvas
Object type
Painting > Painting > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is travelling
Dimensions Height Error: 301,4 is not a valid BCD value cm
Width Error: 466,5 is not a valid BCD value cm
Depth Error: 10,5 is not a valid BCD value cm
Artists Artist: Salvador Dalí
Accession number 2937 a-c (MK)
Credits Purchased 1977
Department Modern Art
Acquisition date 1977
Creation date in 1936
Collector Collector / Edward James
Entitled parties © Salvador Dalí, Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2022
Provenance Edward James, Chichester 1936-64; Edward James Foundation, Chichester 1964-77; left and right panels on loan to Tate Gallery, London 1958-72; Triptych on loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1972-77
Exhibitions Rotterdam 1972a; Charleroi 1985; Stuttgart/Zurich/Humlebaek 1989-90; London/Rotterdam/Bilbao 2007-08; Milan 2010-11; Paris/Madrid 2012-13; Rotterdam 2013-14a; Edinburgh/Hamburg/Rotterdam 2016-17
Internal exhibitions Openbare restauratie schilderij Dalí (2010)
Een paraplu, een naaimachine en een ontleedtafel. Surrealisme à la Dalí in Rotterdam. (2013)
Gek van surrealisme (2017)
External exhibitions Surreal Encounters - Collecting the Marvellous (2016)
Dalí (2012)
Dalí, Ernst, Miró, Magritte... (2016)
Dal nulla al sogno (2018)
Boijmans x KMSKA. Bruikleen t.b.v. nieuwe opstelling KMSKA (2022)
Research Show research A dream collection - Surrealism in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Literature Descharnes 1997, p. 201; Stuttgart/Zurich 1989, p. 189, cat. no. 146; Gibson 1997b, p. 350, fig. 81; Figueres 2004-present, no. 419; Milan 2010-11, pp. 160-61; Paris/Madrid 2012-13, p. 204; Edinburgh 2016, p. 215, cat. no. 32
Material
Object
Geographical origin Spain > Southern Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue A dream collection - Surrealism in Museum Boijmans Van beuningen

Author: Marijke Peyser

Viewers’ first response to this painting is usually surprise at its huge size – almost three metres high and more than four metres wide – and its triptych form. And then there is the great emptiness that focuses all the attention on the frail little figure in the centre: Carolina Barnadas Ferrés. Carolina, known as Carolinetta, was the unmarried daughter of the sister of Salvador Dalí’s grandmother Carolina. Carolinetta died of meningitis on 22 December 1914 at the age of thirty-four.[1] The telegram announcing her death was read out to the family during dinner by Dalí’s father, a notary in Figueres. Dalí’s grandmother was heartbroken. The ten-year-old Dalí, however, went on eating impassively.[2] It was only later, in the 1930s, that the artist came to terms with the loss of this beloved member of the family in numerous paintings and drawings of a frail, romantically dressed woman with a skipping-rope.[3]

On the centre panel Dalí depicted a chapel in a building style typical of Catalonia. At the same time this structure calls to mind the little temple in The Marriage of the Virgin (1504), a painting by the Italian master Raphael whom Dalí so admired. The church bell echoes the silhouette of the girl skipping. The two towers on the left of the church allude to Dalí’s discovery that the church towers of Gerona and Delft resembled one another.[4] In the background of the left shutter is the little town of Cadaqués. Two half-naked stooping figures wandering across the desolate plain on the right may be an allusion to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.

Dalí probably met the immensely wealthy English art lover and patron Edward James in the summer of 1933.[5] In 1936 James had a contract drawn up giving him the rights to all the works Dalí made between 1 July 1936 and 1 July 1938. Dalí and James signed the agreement on 21 December 1936, although the conditions did not take effect until 1 June 1937.[6] Nevertheless this large triptych, painted in 1936, is part of the output from that period.

Initially the triptych hung at 35 Wimpole Street, James’s London residence. During the Second World War a bomb fell on the roof of the house and damaged the middle section of the triptych.[7] This canvas was immediately transferred to James’s country house in Sussex. The two side panels are part of a group of twenty works from James’s collection that were loaned to the Tate Gallery (now the Tate) on 27 August 1958. At the end of June 1972 these works left this museum and were restored by Holder & Sons in London.[8] Some months later the restored side panels were taken to Sussex, where the three canvases were reunited. On 27 October 1972 the triptych arrived in Rotterdam as a long-term loan. Its purchase followed five years later.

 

Footnotes

[1] Gibson 1997b, pp. 82-83.

[2] Stuttgart/Zurich 1989, p. 136.

[3] Écho nostalgique (1935), Banlieue de la ville paranoïaque-critique (1935); Paysage païen moyen (1937).

[4] Stuttgart/Zurich 1989, p. 170: Dalí was also an admirer of Johannes Vermeer. He portrayed him several times: Eléments énigmatiques dans un paysage (1934), Le spectre de Vermeer pouvant être utilisé comme table (c. 1934), Spectre de Vermeer de Delft (c. 1934), Le spectre de Vermeer de Delft (c. 1934), Apparition de la ville de Delft (c. 1936).

[5] Gibson 1997b, p. 383.

[6] Ibid., p. 417 and Peyser-Verhaar 2008, see pp. 158-59 for Dalí’s obligations.

[7] The Edward James Foundation has a letter dating from 1961, from James to his secretary in Sussex, in which he says that the middle panel was damaged when a bomb ‘knocked off’ the roof of his house at 35 Wimpole Street London. See MBVB Archives, Dalí object file, Landscape with a Girl Skipping Rope.

[8] Email from Christopher Bastock, Tate Library & Archive, dated 14 May 2010. See MBVB Archives, Dalí object file, Landscape with a Girl Skipping Rope.

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