Salvador Dalí

Emilio Terry, Paris (probably acquired from the artist by 1936 and until at least 1956)

Galerie André Petit, Paris

Daniel Filipacchi, Paris

Acquired from the above by 1977 by the present owner

(possibly) Casino de Knokke le Zoute, Salvador Dalí, 1956, p. 21 (titled Personnage dans un paysage and dated 1934)

London, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, 1978, no. 11.6, p. 267, illustrated

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 1979-80, no. 89, p. 164, illustrated in color

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 43, p. 97, illustrated in color

Salvador Dalí, Dalí par Dalí, Paris, 1970, pp. 32-33, illustrated (detail; in incorrect orientation)

Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surrealiste, 1973, p. 14, illustrated in color 

Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 78, illustrated in color (detail)

Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí: The Work, The Man, Lausanne, 1984, p. 117, illustrated in color

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Il Fantastico hidalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia illustrato da Salvador Dalí, Milan, 1986, pp. 162-63, illustrated (in incorrect orientation)

Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Cologne, 1994, vol. I, no. 375, p. 169, illustrated in color; vol. II, p. 749

Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Paris, 1994, p. 116

Alice Stašková and Paul Michael Lützeler, eds., Hermann Broch und die Künste, Berlin, 2009, p. 48

Roger Rothman, Tiny Surrealism: Salvador Dalí and the Aesthetics of the Small, Lincoln, 2012, p. 94 

Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, ed., Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí, 2019, no. P 273, illustrated in color, https://www.salvador-dali.org/fr/oeuvre/catalogue-raisonne-peinture/obra/273/symbiose-de-la-tete-en-coquillages (accessed on 2 March 2025)

Will Atkin, Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement, London, 2023, fig. 1.6, p. 36, illustrated in color