It is the first time the painting will be displayed in Dalí’s home town in over seven decades since 1952 when it was purchased by the City of Glasgow for the sum of £8,200.
The forthcoming loan comes after the painting left Glasgow for a five-month period between July and December last year to go on display alongside El Greco’s Christ on the Cross at The Auckland Project in County Durham.The painting was also absent from Kelvingrove from September 2017 to the summer of 2018, having featured in a Dalí/Duchamp exhibition in London's Royal Academy of Arts before the exhibition travelled to The Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida.
He told our sister title The Herald: “While it may be the case that art exchanges between museums are important and commonplace, it is concerning that Glasgow Museums seem to be loaning out the crown jewel of its Kelvingrove art collection with no reciprocation nor any tangible social and economic benefit to the people of Glasgow.