Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of our greatest modern artists and an icon of surrealism. Dalí's fantastic expression in paintings, sculptures, films and writings helped to cement the identity of Surrealism. Drawing inspiration from Freud's psychoanalysis, Einstein's theory of relativity, impressionism and Renaissance painting, Dalí rendered symbolist, fantastical creatures and landscapes. Few artists have had such a peculiar universe as Salvador Dalí, where an imaginative mix of madness executed with technical perfection and precision reigns. His painting "The Persistence of Memory" from 1931 is one of the most famous works of art of all time. Dalí lived as he created - in constant movement, in search of immortality.
Here, Dalí has used the central image from his most well-known painting "The Persistence of Memory" (1931) and immortalized it in bronze. This is one of the most well-known images in art history, and the original painting has been a central piece at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York since 1934. Dalí feared the passage of time and became obsessed with time's constant flow. In his art, he inverts the characteristics of the watch, which is hard and precise, and instead makes it appear soft, flawed and bent beyond recognition. Dalí's clockwork does not work, time has become non-linear and appears rather as fluid or melting. The clocks in Dalí's art lose their meaning and the essence of time thus floats away. Dalí originally got the inspiration for the melting clock from a runny Camembert cheese he saw melting in the sun.
Size: Height 37 cm without plinth, with plinth approx. 41 cm
Technique: Sculpture
Material: Bronze
Edition: 350
Caster: Perseo, Switzerland
Year: The maquette was created by Dalí in 1980 and cast for the first time in the same year.
Signed and numbered. Certificates from The Dalí Universe and Perseo accompany the sculpture.
Estimated delivery time 6-8 weeks.