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Painting by Salvador Dalí (1931)

This article is about the painting by Salvador Dalí.

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For other uses, see The Persistence of Memory (disambiguation).

The Persistence of Memory (Catalan: La persistència de la memòria, Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.

It is widely recognized and frequently referred to in popular culture,^[1] and sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as "The Melting Clocks", "The Soft Watches" or "The Melting Watches".^[2]

Analysis

The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch.^[3] It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was ce biography dali salvador surrealism melting clocks4 HOSU