Art Institute of Chicago

Midday Sorrow

Angel Planells · 1932

Provenance

Ownership history

Roland Penrose (died 1984), London, acquired directly from the artist, probably summer 1936 to 1984 [letter February 11, 2004 from Antony W. R. Penrose, in curatorial file]; by descent to his son, Antony W. R. Penrose, Sussex, England, 1984 to c. 1992 [letter mentioned above]; sold to Timothy Baum, New York, c. 1992 [Timothy Baum, in conversation with Stephanie D’Alessandro, September 15, 2003]; sold to the Art Institute, 1993.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Barcelona, Galeries Catalonia, Exposicio Angel Planells, November 5–20, 1934, cat. 1.
London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealism Exhibition, June 11–July 4, 1936, no. 307.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, El Surrealismo en Espãna: 1924–1939, October 18, 1994–January 9, 1995, traveled to Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, February 11–April 17, 1995; Kunsthalle Vienna, May 12–July 16, 1995, pp. 255 (ill.), 366, no. 160, as Mediodia triste.

Literature

Herbert Read, ed., Surrealism (Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York: 1936), p. 16, pl. 83.Galeria Rene Metras, Angel Planells (Barcelona, 1975), n.p. (ill.), fig. 83.
Lucia Garcia de Carpi, La Pintura Surrealista Espãnola: 1924–1936 (Editions ISTMO, Madrid: 1986), p. 86 (ill.), cat. 42 (ill.), as Migda Penós.
Christie’s London, The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale (February 3, 2003), in “1936 International Exhibition of Surrealism New Burlington Galleries London,” n.p. (ill.).

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