- Cat. no. P
- 681
Corpus hipercubus (Based on the treatise on cubic form by Juan de Herrera, builder of the Escorial)
Hypercubic Christ / Crucifixion

Cat. no. P 681
Corpus hipercubus (Based on the treatise on cubic form by Juan de Herrera, builder of the Escorial)
c. 1954
Description
- Date:
- c. 1954
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 194.4 x 123.9 cm
- Signature:
- Signer lower right: Salvador Dalí
- Location:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of The Chester Dale Collection, 1955
- Chester Dale collection
- Although this work was exhibited for the first time with the title Corpus Ipercubicus in 1954, we have retained the first title, from the exhibition"Dalí 1954" at the Carstairs Gallery in New York during the months of December 1954 and January 1955.
- 1954, Roma, Sale dell'Aurora Pallavicini, Mostra di quadri disegni ed oreficerie di Salvador Dalí, 13-3-1954 - 30-6-1954, cat. no. 4
- 1954, New York City, Carstairs Gallery, Dali 1954, December 1954 - January 1955, cat. no. 7
- 1979, París, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 18-12-1979 - 21-4-1980, cat. no. 318
- 1980, London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 14-5-1980 - 29-6-1980, cat. no. 216
- 1982, Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 28-2-1982 - 6-4-1982, not included in catalogue
- 1983, Barcelona, Palau Reial de Pedralbes, 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, 10-6-1983 - 31-7-1983, cat. no. 355
- 1989, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, 13-5-1989 - 23-7-1989, cat. no. 251
- 1999, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 5-3-1999 - 24-5-1999, cat. no. 50
- 2000, Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's optical illusions, 21-1-2000 - 26-3-2000, cat. no. 53
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12-9-2004 - 16-1-2005, cat. no. 225
- Mostra di quadri disegni ed oreficerie di Salvador Dalí, Sale dell'Aurora Pallavicini, Roma, 1954, il. 5 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, Io, Salvador Dalí, Del Turco, Roma, 1954, cover (detail), il. 1
- Mario Radice, "La pazienza maggiore virtù di Salvador Dalí", L'Italia, 14/10/1954, Milano, n. p. (detail)
- s. a., "Verdens mest omstridte maler sjokkerer og begeistrer amerika", Dagbladet, 30/12/1954, Oslo, p. 5
- s. a., "Museum Acquires Its First Dali; "Crucifixion" to Be Shown Today", New York Times, 14/01/1955, Ne W York, n. p. (detall
- s. a., "Metropolitan Gets Its First Dali", Herald Tribune, 14/01/1955, New York, n. p.
- s. a., "Dali Museum Gift", Record, 17/01/1955, Boston, Mass., n. p. (detail)
- s. a., "Dali Makes Met", Time, 24/01/1955, New York, p. 72
- F. O. H., "Salvador Dali", Art News, 31/01/1955, New York, n. p. (detail)
- Marie Kirkwood, "Dali debate continues in our town", News, 19/03/1955, Cleveland, O., n. p.
- Salvador Dalí, "The Dali Crucifixion", Jubilee, 30/04/1955, New York, N.y., p. 31 (indirect image) (detail)
- Vicente Jr. Cubillas, "Salvador Dali y su Bigote", El Mundo, 16/10/1955, La Habana, n. p. (indirect image)
- Catalog of works by Salvador Dalí in public museum collections, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland [Ohio], 1956, p. 7
- Harry V. Coren, "A hit on stage and on canvas", Mirror, 22/04/1956, New York, n. p. (detail)
- Dalí, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1957, il. XII
- Giorgio Ottone, "Casa di Dalí a Cadaqués", Novità, 31/01/1957, Milano, n. p. (detail)
- J.v.l. Brans, "La pintura religiosa de Dalí", Goya, 30/11/1957, Madrid, p. 160
- A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 69
- Juan-Eduardo Cirlot, Arte contemporáneo, EDHASA, Barcelona, 1958, p. 133 (detail)
- Miguel Utrillo, "Dalí en zig-zag", Blanco y Negro, 10/01/1959, Madrid, n. p. (detail)
- Frank Getlein, Dorothy Getlein, Christianity in modern art, The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, 1961, p. 77
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1961, n. p. (detail) (indirect image)
- Lola Aguado, "Los tres maestros españoles de la pintura mundial de hoy. ¿Quién es Dalí?", Gaceta Ilustrada, 03/02/1962, Madrid, n. p. (indirect image)
- J.c.c., "Psicoanalisis de Salvador Dalí", ABC, 27/10/1963, Madrid, p. 51 (indirect image)
- s. a., "and they crucified him", Rocky Mount Evening Telegram, 26/03/1964, Rocky Mount, NC, n. p. (detail)
- s. a., "[Jesus Christ gave his life that mon....]", European Stars and Stripes, 16/04/1965, Kaiserslautern, p. 13 (detail)
- Russell Lynes, "Good corn, Bad corn", Art In America, 30/04/1965, New York, NY, p. 91
- Martin Gardner, "Mathematical Games", Scientific American, 30/11/1966, New York, N.y., p. [141]
- Dragutin Gostuski, Vreme umetnosti, prilog zasnivanju jedne opste nauke o oblicima = Time of art, contribution to the foundation of a general science of form, Stana Duric-Klajn, Beograd, 1968, p. 178
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 98
- Raymond A. Sokolov, "Big and Beautiful", Newsweek, 16/12/1968, New York, p. 94
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [París], 1970, p. 74-75 (detail)
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dalí, the masterworks, The Reynolds-Morse Foundation, Cleveland, 1971, p. 31
- José Angelo Gaiarsa, Respiraçao e imaginaçao, Jose Angelo Gaiarsa, Sao Paulo, 1971, p. 59 (detail)
- Michel Conil Lacoste, Salvador Dalí, "Dalí, il genio delirante (coberta)", BolaffiArte, 06/1972, Torino, n. p.
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1973, il. 4, p. 181
- Salvador Dalí : a guide to his works in public museums, The Dalí Museum, Cleveland [Ohio], 1973, p. [24]
- Dali, Ballantine Books, New York, 1974, n. p.
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 181
- Tadao Ogura, Robert Descharnes, L'Art moderne du monde, Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974, il. 55, p. 116
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Madrid, Barcelona, 1975, p. 270
- Tom Zito, "Visual Images And Shadows From The Fourth Dimension", The Washington Post, 22/01/1975, Washington, n. p. (detail)
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Dalí, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1977, p. 123 (detail), p. 124-125, p. 250
- s. a., "The art of Salvador Dalí", Saturday Evening Post, 30/04/1978, s. l., p. 65
- Petit journal Salvador Dalí, Centre Georges Pompidou, [París], 1979, p. 13
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 381
- Joaquín Soler Serrano, "Joaquín Soler Serrano presenta "Mis personajes favoritos"", Tele Radio, 17/09/1979, Madrid, p. 119
- Homage to Dalí, Chartwell Books, Secaucus, New Jersey, [1980], p. 50
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. 216
- s. a., "Dossier Dalí", Guadalimar, 31/01/1980, Madrid, n. p. (detail)
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 127
- Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, Edition Art Life, [S.l.], 1982, cover (detail), p. 39
- s. a., "Murio Gala Dalí, en Port Lligat (pàg.2)", Los Sitios, 11/06/1982, Girona, p. 7 (detail)
- s. a., "Elena Diakanoff (Gala) fou un pilar del surrealisme en la seva joventut", El Punt, 11/06/1982, Girona, p. 5 (detail)
- 400 obres de Salvador Dalí del 1914 al 1983, Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, [Madrid], 1983, p. 201
- Clarà, Dalí, Monturiol, Pla, Vayreda, Diputació Provincial de Girona, Nou Art Thor, Girona, Barcelona, 1983, p. 27 (detail)
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 108
- s. a., "Los Dalí que se verán en Barcelona", LA VANGUARDIA, 28/05/1983, Barcelona, n. p. (detail)
- s. a., "Estructura i característiques de l'exposició antològica de Dalí a Catalunya / En espera del "Corpus Hipercubicus"", Los Sitios, 04/06/1983, Girona, p. 12 (detail)
- s. a., "Divendres s'inaugura l'Antològica Dalí al Palau Reial de Pedralbes de Barcelona", El Punt, 08/06/1983, Girona, p. 25 (detail)
- s. a., "Mañana se inaugura la exposición de Dalí", LA VANGUARDIA, 09/06/1983, Barcelona, title page
- s. a., "Jordi Pujol visitarà Dalí, avui, a Púbol", El Punt, 10/06/1983, Girona, title page
- Alberto Cardin, "Inaugurada la Exposición antológica de Dalí", Noticiero Universal, 11/06/1983, Barcelona, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- J.v. Foix, "El palacio de Pedralbes albergó una fiesta lúdica y superrealista en la apertura de la exposición de Dalí", El País, 11/06/1983, Barcelona, p. 23 (indirect image) (detail)
- Manuel Durán, "Miles de personas se apiñan ante las obras maestras del pintor ampurdanés", El Correo Catalán, 11/06/1983, Barcelona, n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- s. a., "Dalí, el gran absent en la inauguració de la seva antològica, recordà ahir Gala", El Punt, 11/06/1983, Girona, p. 3 (indirect image) (detail)
- s. a., "Salvador Dalí, pintor conegut cotitzat i discutit [Coberta]", Rodamón, 24/06/1983, Barcelona, title page (detail)
- s. a., "Daliniana tramuntanada, acompanyada de l'òptica de Joan Comalat.", Revista de Banyoles, 22/07/1983, Banyoles, Es, p. 12 (indirect image)
- Dalí, Sarpe, Madrid, 1984, il. 41, p. 91
- Claire Péliss, "Le Maniérisme et Salvador Dalí", L'oeil, 30/11/1984, Lausanne, p. 39
- Antonio D. Olano, Nacimiento, vida, pasión, muerte, resurrección y gloria de Salvador, Domingo, Felipe, Jacinto Dalí Doménech, Cusí y Farrés, Marqués de Dalí y Púbol, Dyrsa, Madrid, 1985, p. 292 (detail)
- Josep Vallès i Rovira, Dalí delit Empordà, Carles Vallès, Figueres, 1987, p. 158
- Entender la pintura : Dalí, Orbis - Fabri, Barcelona, 1989, p. 29
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 329
- Jaume Socias Palau, "Fin y comienzo de Salvador Dalí", Goya, Revista de Arte, 01/02/1989, Madrid, p. 219 (indirect image)
- A. B. Tello, Salvador Dalí, Vilmar, Barcelona, 1990, back cover (detail), p. 109 (detail)
- Leticia Azcue Brea, Salvador Dalí, Colegio de España, Salamanca, 1990, p. 69
- Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 102
- René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Ars Mundi, [S.l.], 1990, p. 91
- Dalí exhibition, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1991, p. 15
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 170
- Jaime Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Anaya, Madrid, 1993, p. 80 (detail)
- Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 56
- Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 56
- André Bouguenec, Salvador Dalí : philosophe et esotériste incompris, Opéra, Nantes, 1994, p. XXVII
- Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 110
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 237
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 467
- Dalí. Arquitectura, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, [Barcelona], [Figueres], 1996, p. 139
- Salvador Dalí, antològica sobre paper: 1916-1980, Museu de Cadaqués, Cadaqués, 1996, p. 80
- Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 115
- Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí : 1904-1989, Evergreen (Benedikt Taschen), [Köln], 1996, p. 81
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 96
- Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 141
- "Salvador Dalí: imatges d´un creador", Castell Gala Dalí, Púbol, 2000, n. p.
- Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 165, p. 167 (detail)
- Warum tut das Loch in meiner Hand nicht weh?, Tympano, München, 2000, p. 62
- Grandes maestros de la pintura : Dalí, Altaya, Barcelona, 2001, p. 21
- Alberto Mario Perrone, Salvador Dalí, escándalo, transgresión y genio, Longseller, Buenos Aires, 2001, p. 118
- Michael Moorcock, Voici l'homme, L'Atlante, Nantes, 2001, cover
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 299
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 299
- Javier Pérez Andújar, Salvador Dalí : a la conquista de lo irracional, Algaba, Madrid, 2003, n. p. (detail)
- Lluís Llongueras, Todo Dalí : vida y obra del personaje más genial y espectacular del siglo XX, Generalitat de Catalunya, [Barcelona], 2003, p. LXXXI
- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 157
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Textos autobiográficos 1, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2003, n. p.
- El Discòbol, Trabucaire, Canet, 2004, p. [28] (indirect image) (detail)
- Obra completa : Álbum, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], [Figueres], Barcelona, 2004, p. 218-19 (detail) (indirect image), p. 233
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 190 (detail)
- Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Salvador Dalí : vida i obra d'un geni, Columna, Barcelona, 2004, n. p.
- Màrius Carol, Josep Playà i Maset, El Enigma Dalí, Plaza Janés, Barcelona, 2004, n. p.
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 369, p. 370 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí: l'album, Draeger, [París], 2005, p. 64 (indirect image) (reversed image)
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí de Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Sant Lluís, Menorca, [Figueres], 2005, p. 29 (indirect image) (detail)
- s. a., "The Grand Master of Surrealism Salvador Dali", Usa today magazine, 31/05/2005, McLean, VA, p. 35
- Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2006, p. 50
- Salvador Dalí. La Gare de Perpignan: Pop , Op, Yes-Yes, Pompier, Museum Ludwig, Köln, 2006, p. 27
- Salvador Dalí: an illustrated life, Tate Publishing, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura, [Madrid], [Figueres], London, 2007, p. 218-219 (indirect image), p. 223
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Estrella de Diego, Gala. Àlbum, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, [Figueres], 2007, p. 150 (indirect image)
- Xavier Duran, L'Artista en el laboratori : pinzellades sobre art i ciència, Bromera, València, 2007, fig. 9
- Ciència recreativa. De Josep Estalella al segle XXI, Fundació Caixa de Girona, Girona, 2008, p. 33, p. 45
- Procés a l'Atzar = Proceso al Azar = Chance on Trial, Editrama, Madrid, [2008], n. p. (indirect image) (detail)
- The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2008, cover, p. 9 (indirect image)
- Alessandro Del Puppo, Dalí et le surréalisme, E-ducation.it S.p.A, Florence, 2008, p. 195, p. 197 (detail)
- Xavier Duran, El Artista en el laboratorio : pinceladas sobre arte y ciencia, Publicacions Universitat de València, València, 2008, n. p.
- Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Los tesoros de Salvador Dalí, Librería Universitaria, Barcelona, 2009, p. 63
- Salvador Dalí : the late work, High Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Atlanta, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 31
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. 213
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : the reality of dreams, Prestel, New York, Munich, London, 2011, p. 96
- Dalí un artista un genio, Skira, Milano, 2012, p. 247 (indirect image)
- La Máquina de pensar : Ramon Llull y el Ars Combinatoria, CCCB, Diputació Barcelona, Barcelona, 2016, p. 49
- Salvador Dalí, Yomiuri Shimbun, Culture Promotion Department, Tokyo, 2016, p. 215
- Antoni Pitxot, Montse Aguer i Teixidor, Teatre-Museu Dalí. Figueres, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Triàngle Postals, Sant Lluís, Menorca, [Figueres], 2016, p. 29 (indirect image) (detail)
- Dalí Pitxot : une amitié au cœur du surréalisme, Marot, Musée de Beaux -Arts, Tournai, [S.l.], 2017, p. 128
- Dia-logos : Ramon Llull's method of thought and artistic practice, ZKM. Center for Art and Media, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - CCCB, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - EPFTL, Lausanne, Karlsruhe, Barcelona, 2018, p. 392
- The Latino Christ in art, literature, and liberation theology, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2018, p. 38
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