What is the title of Dalí's painting featuring a large distorted face and a grasshopper?

What is the title of Dalí's painting featuring a large distorted face and a grasshopper? The answer is The Great Masturbator.

Salvador Dalí painted The Great Masturbator in 1929, using oil on canvas during his formative Surrealist period. The central distorted profile is based on a rock formation near Cap de Creus in Catalonia, a landscape closely tied to Dalí’s memories and imagination. The painting is now displayed at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

The grasshopper rests on the mouth of the giant head, while ants gather around it and across the face. Dalí repeatedly used ants as symbols associated with decay, anxiety and sexual unease. A nude female figure, often interpreted as resembling Gala, rises from the back of the head, reinforcing the painting’s erotic and psychologically charged imagery.

The title can mislead readers into treating the work as a straightforward self-portrait or literal scene. It is better understood as a dense Surrealist image combining desire, fear, memory and bodily symbolism. It is also frequently confused with The Persistence of Memory, Dalí’s 1931 painting of melting clocks.