Commissioned by the sitter, Dorothy Spreckels Munn (1913-2000), Palm Beach, Florida, 1942

Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, November, 28, 1989

New York, Galleries of M. Knoedler and Company, April 14, 1943–May 5, 1943. “Dalí,” no. 4a.

San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, September 21, 1965–October 17, 1965. “The San Francisco Collector,” no. 71.

Barcelona, Caixa Forum, February 6, 2004–May 23, 2004; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, June 28, 2004–August 30, 2004. “Dalí: Mass Culture,” no. 238.

Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, August 7, 2010–January 9, 2011. “Salvador Dalí: The Late Work,” no. 9.

Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, May 11, 2021–September 26, 2021. “Le surréalisme dans l’art américain: Dalí, Ernst, Tanguy, Pollock, Rothko, Johns, Bourgeois,” no. 35.

H. D., “Portraits by Dalí,” The New York Times, April 11, 1943, repr. pg. 17.

“Dali’s Ladies,” Time, April 26, 1943, repr. pg. 79.

“Done the Dali Way,” The Art Digest 17, no. 14 (April 15, 1943), pg. 7.

“Dorothy Spreckels Munn: Looking for Roots,” The New York Times, July 4, 1968, repr. pg. 22.

Havlice, Patricia Pate, Art in Time, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1970, pg. 77.

Robbins, Millie, “Artist Envisioned Peninsula Atop a Dolphin,” San Mateo The Times, May 28, 1982, pg. 8.

Morse, Albert Reynolds, Dali's Animal Crackers, St. Petersburg, Florida: Salvador Dali Museum, 1993, pgs. 77-78, repr.

Ehrlich, Susan, ed., Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957, exh. cat., Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, 1995, pg. 100.

Fanés, Fèlix, Dali: Mass Culture, exh. cat., Barcelona: Fundación “la Caixa,” 2004, repr. pg. 154, pg. 274, no. 238.

Guldemond, Jaap, It's all Dalí: Film, Fashion, Photography, Design, Advertising, Painting, exh. cat., Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, pg. 31.

King, Elliott H., and David A. Brenneman, Salvador Dalí: The Late Work, exh. cat., Atlanta, Georgia: High Museum of Art, 2010, pg. 66, fig. 9; pg. 168, no. 9.

Scharlach, Bernice, Big Alma: San Francisco’s Alma Spreckels, rev. ed., San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2015, pg. 352, repr. on pg. 353.

Centre de la Vieille Charité, Le surréalisme dans l'art américain: Dalí, Ernst, Tanguy, Pollock, Rothko, Johns, Bourgeois, exh. cat., Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2021, pgs. 56-57, no. 35, repr.