The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí · 1931

This is The Persistence of Memory, painted by Salvador Dalí in nineteen thirty-one. The soft watches came to him, he said, from a plate of Camembert left out to melt. Stand close: the whole canvas is smaller than a sheet of newspaper.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm) · Credit Given anonymously

Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: Little Ghost Eating Bread, Untitled from Reason of Sleep

More by Salvador Dalí here: The Little Theater, Retrospective Bust of a Woman