Facts about Salvador Dalí's Melting Clocks

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   In The Persistence of Memory, Dalí depicted a barren Catalonian landscape based on the cliffs and coastline near his home in Cadaqués, Spain.

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   Surrealism, the movement to which Salvador Dalí's melting clocks belong, was formally founded by André Breton with his Surrealist Manifesto in 1924.

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   Housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Persistence of Memory measures just 24 by 33 centimeters, making it a surprisingly small canvas.

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   Dalí claimed the melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory were inspired by a surrealist vision of melting Camembert cheese he observed one afternoon.

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   The iconic melting clocks appear in Salvador Dalí's 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, one of his most recognized Surrealist works.

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