Melting clocks are without a doubt the most iconic image of Salvador Dalí, along with his mustaches and long-legged elephants. The first time Dalí painted these clocks was in the painting "The Persistence of Memory" (1931), which belongs to the collection of the MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
British art historian Dawn Adès explains its meaning: "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order".
