At Large  July 3, 2026  Megan D Robinson

Salvador Dalí's 'Melting Clocks' Is a Perfect Hot Summer Painting

As temperatures rise to summer highs, one artwork seems to encapsulate our collective torpor better than most: Salvador DalÍ’s The Persistence of Memory. The iconic 1931 work depicts a series of clock faces that appear to be melting in a seaside landscape hauntingly barren except for a leaf-less tree, a couple of simple architectural structures, and a distorted, globular form resembling the face of a sleeping human with incredibly long eyelashes.

Given anonymously. 162.193. © 2021 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí.

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Oil on canvas. 9 1/2 x 13 in.(24.1 x 33 cm).

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