The Persistence of Memory is Salvador Dali's best-known 1931 painting, a small canvas showing several limp, melting pocket watches draped over the branches of a dead tree, a rocky shoreline and an ambiguous fleshy form, set against a barren coastal landscape said to be based on the cliffs near Dali's home in Catalonia. The soft watches, an image Dali later said was suggested by the sight of a melting Camembert cheese, have become one of the most widely reproduced single images in Surrealist painting, read by critics as a meditation on the instability of time itself.
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