Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Sterile Efforts
Alternate Title:
Los esfuerzos estériles
Image View:
Detail, middle of right side
Creator:
Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS07487
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1927-1928 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Catalan; Spanish
Style Period:
Surrealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on plywood
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
64 cm (height) x 48 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; portrait; Federico García Lorca
Description:
In March 1923 Dalí met Federico García Lorca at the Student Residence in Madrid, beginning an intense intellectual, artistic and personal relationship. Their association would continue until 1929, when Dalí moved to Paris and Lorca went to New York. Dalí illustrated some of Lorca's texts. The painting Los esfuerzos estériles (Sterile Efforts), in which one central motif focuses on Lorca’s head, is another example of the fruitful intellectual relationship that formed between the two creators. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-DALI-MRS-LSE-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Sterile Efforts