The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí's 'The Persistence of Memory' (1931) is a small, 24 × 33 cm oil that fixed Surrealism in popular imagination. Soft, melting watches drape over a barren Catalan coastline, a fleshy, sleeping self-portrait lolls at the foot of a dead tree, and red ants swarm on a closed pocket watch — an indelible tableau of dream-logic and collapsing time. Acquired by MoMA in 1934, it is the most reproduced Dalí of all.

Exhibition Venue

MoMA

New York, United States

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