The Persistence of Memory
1931 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Dalí said the soft watches came to him from a camembert melting in the sun, and he painted them with hallucinatory precision.
★ 8.7
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1938 · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
A small steam locomotive comes out of a fireplace under the mantel clock, and the room around it is otherwise entirely ordinary.
★ 7.2
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
1954 · Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
Dalí went back to his own melting watches and broke the ground beneath them into floating bricks, for the atomic age.
★ 5.2