El reflejo craneano (The Cranial Reflection)

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© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2004 USA: © Salvador Dalí Museum Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2007

Cat. no. P 250

El reflejo craneano (The Cranial Reflection)

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Description

Date:
1930
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
81 x 64.8 cm
Signature:
Signed and dated lower right corner: Salvador Dali 1930
Signed and dated center-left: Gala Salvador Dalí 1933 / -abril-
Location:
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)

Provenance

  1. Paul Éluard, Paris
  2. Helena Rubinstein, New York
  3. E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)

Observations

We have entitled this work "El reflejo craneano", in the belief that this is the picture Dalí presented as number 6 in the exhibition organized by La Gaceta de Arte at the Ateneo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife from 11 to 21 May 1935. This supposition is confirmed by the article by Domingo López Torres published in La Tarde on 17 May 1935, which give an accurate description of the work.

Exhibitions

  1. 1935, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ateneo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Exposición surrealista, 11/05/1935 - 21/05/1935, cat. no. 6
  2. 1938, Amsterdam, Galerie Robert, Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Spring 1938, cat. no. 26
  3. 1997, Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González Generalitat Valenciana., El Objeto surrealista, 16/10/1997 - 04/01/1998, p. 193
  4. 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21/10/1998 - 31/01/1999, cat. no. 6
  5. 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, James Rosenquist: paintings, 29/04/2000 - 10/09/2000, cat. no. 24
  6. 2002, París, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 06/03/2002 - 24/06/2002, no reference
  7. 2002, Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1914 - 1944 : Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., 20/07/2002 - 24/11/2002, no reference
  8. 2006, Tokio, Ueno Royal Museum, Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, 23/09/2006 - 04/01/2007, cat. no. 14

Bibliography

  1. Boletín internacional del surrealismo, Grupo surrealista de París y "Gaceta de Arte" de Tenerife (Islas Canarias), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1935, p. 8 (indirect image)
  2. Elaine Brown Keiffer, "Madame Rubinstein", Life, 21/07/1941, Chicago, IL, p. [36] (indirect image)
  3. Dali par Dali, Draeger, [Paris], 1970, p. 25 (detail)
  4. A. Reynolds Morse, A Dalí primer, The Reynolds Morse Foundation, Cleveland [Ohio], 1970, p. 18
  5. Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 127, p. 152
  6. Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dali Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 54, p. 127, p. 152
  7. Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974, il. 17 (detail)
  8. Salvador Dalí, René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Filipacchi, Paris, 1978, p. 28
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  12. Homage to Dalí, Chartwell Books, Secaucus, New Jersey, [1980], p. 128
  13. Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 17 (detail)
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  20. Emmanuel Guigon, Óscar Domínguez, Gobierno de Canarias. Viceconsejeria de Cultura y Deportes, Islas Canarias, 1996, p. 133 (indirect image) (detail)
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  26. Fèlix Fanés, El Gran masturbador, Electa, Madrid, 2000, p. 52
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