How does this artwork elucidate its Provenance?
The painting is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern, as part of the 1981 Georges F. Keller bequest. It was exhibited at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Madrid during 1983, at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in 1989, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk from 1989 to 1990, and later in 1990 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal.Several other paintings from Dali's Seven Wonders of the World series have come up for sale. The Statue of Olympian Zeus was sold by Sotheby's in 2009 for $482,500, and is now in the collection of the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art. In 2013 Sotheby's sold The Temple of Diana at Ephesus for $845,000; it is now in a private collection. The Walls of Babylon was offered by Sotheby's in 2014 with an estimate of £300,000–400,000, but did not sell. Dalí's thematically similar 1955 paintings have been auctioned. Christie's sold The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus for $1,325,000 in 2016, and Walls of Babylon in 2001 for £168,750.
Musée des Beaux-Arts Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Christie's Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Museo de Arte Moderno Seven Wonders of the World Kunstmuseum Bern Sotheby's Morohashi Museum of Modern Art