- Cat. no. P
- 250
El reflejo craneano (The Cranial Reflection)
The Average Bureaucrat

Cat. no. P 250
The Cranial Reflection
1930
Description
- Date:
- 1930
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 81 x 64.8 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated on the lower right corner: Salvador Dali 1930
Signed and dated center-left: Gala Salvador Dalí 1933 / -abril- - Location:
- The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)
- Paul Éluard, París
- Helena Rubinstein, New York
- E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)
- 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.
- 1935, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ateneo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Exposición surrealista, 11-5-1935 - 21-5-1935, cat. no. 6
- 1938, Amsterdam, Galerie Robert, Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Spring 1938, cat. no. 26
- 1997, Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González Generalitat Valenciana., El Objeto surrealista, 16-10-1997 - 4-1-1998, p. 193
- 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21-10-1998 - 31-1-1999, cat. no. 6
- 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, James Rosenquist: paintings, 29-4-2000 - 10-9-2000, cat. no. 24
- 2002, París, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 6-3-2002 - 24-6-2002, no reference
- 2002, Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1914 - 1944 : Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., 20-7-2002 - 24-11-2002, no reference
- 2006, Tokio, Ueno Royal Museum, Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, 23-9-2006 - 4-1-2007, cat. no. 14
- cover
- 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)
- Elaine Brown Keiffer, "Madame Rubinstein", Life, 21/07/1941, Chicago, IL, p. [36] (indirect image)
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [París], 1970, p. 25 (detail)
- A. Reynolds Morse, A Dalí primer, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland [Ohio], 1970, p. 18
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 127, p. 152
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 54, p. 127, p. 152
- Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974, il. 17 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Filipacchi, Paris, 1978, p. 28
- Salvador Dalí, selected works, Filipacchi, New York, 1979, p. 28
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 165
- Homage to Dalí, Chartwell Books, Secaucus, New Jersey, [1980], p. 128
- Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surrealisme, Filipacchi, Paris, 1980, p. 13 (indirect image)
- Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 17 (detail)
- Surrealist drawings, The Salvador Dalí Foundation, St. Petersburg [Florida], 1988, n. p.
- Dalí: the Salvador Dalí museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston. Toronto. London, 1991, il. 38
- Carlos Rojas, Salvador Dalí, or the art of spitting on your mother's portrait, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park [Pennsylvania], 1993, il . 8
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 156
- Emmanuel Guigon, Óscar Domínguez, Gobierno de Canarias. Viceconsejería de Cultura y Deportes, Islas Canarias, 1996, p. 133 (indirect image) (detail)
- Haim Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, p. 146
- Kenneth Wach, Salvador Dalí : masterpieces from the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Harry N. Abrams, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, New York, 1996, p. 61
- El Objeto surrealista, IVAM. Centre Julio González, Generalitat Valenciana. Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Ciència, [València], 1997, p. 193 (indirect image)
- Gaceta de arte y su época, 1932-1936, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gobierno de Canarias. Viceconsejería de Cultura y Deportes, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, [S.l.], 1997, p. 237 (indirect image)
- Gérard Durozoi, Histoire du mouvement surréaliste, Hazan, Paris, 1997, p. 297
- Robert Radford, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1997, p. 150
- Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 30
- James Rosenquist: paintings|James Rosenquist: selects Dalí, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 50
- Fèlix Fanés, El Gran masturbador, Electa, Madrid, 2000, p. 52
- Robert S. Lubar, The Salvador Dalí Museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston - New York - London, 2000, p. 63
- Dalí, un creador dissident, Destino, Barcelona, 2004, p. 199
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 116
- Fèlix Fanés, La Pintura y sus sombras : cuatro estudios sobre Salvador Dalí, Museo de Teruel, Teruel, 2004, p. 99
- Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, Ueno Royal Museum, Ueno, 2006, p. 59, p. 58 (detail)
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 119
- Roland Penrose y el surrealismo : mirar de reojo, Fundación Pablo Ruíz Picasso, Málaga, 2008, p. 229 (indirect image), p. 230 (indirect image)
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 130
- Surreal objects : three-dimensional works from Dalí to Man Ray, Hatje Cantz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Ostfildern, Frankfurt, 2011, p. 23
- Encuentros con los años '30, La Fábrica, MNCARS, Madrid, 2012, p. 98 (indirect image), p. 99 (indirect image)
- Dalí i els seus tallers, Das Edicions, Figueres, 2013, p. 22-23 (indirect image)
- Clyde Butcher: visions of Dali's Spain, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2018, p. 48
- Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, p. 116
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