Melting Clock Watch
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Persistence of Memory from Changes in Great Masterpieces by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
. The melting clocks or soft watches questions the meaning of time and our perception of it.
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Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 38 in W 40.5 in D 0.07 in
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- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022The painting commonly referred to as “Melting Clocks” is oil on canvas. Salvador Dalí painted it in 1931. Its name is actually The Persistence of Memory, and it is one of the Spanish Surrealist artist's most well-known works. Find a collection of Salvador Dalí art on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022The melting clocks featured in Salvadore Dalí’s “The Persistence of Memory” symbolize the fluidity of time. He used hyperrealism to convey surrealist concepts in many of his works and is one of the icons of the Surrealist movement. Browse a selection of Surrealist art on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertDecember 5, 2024What the small clocks on a watch mean will vary from timepiece to timepiece. Called sub-dials, they serve as tools for measuring and tracking things other than the current time. Some common types of sub-dials include chronograph stopwatches for tracking seconds and fractions of seconds, moon phase trackers, power reserve monitors, second time zone dials, speed calculators and distance trackers. Explore a wide range of watches on 1stDibs.