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Melting watches draped over a barren landscape and a distorted fleshy face, inspired by Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method of accessing the unconscious.
Significance
The defining image of Surrealism, demonstrating Dalí's "hand-painted dream photographs." Small in size but enormous in cultural impact, it shaped our visual vocabulary of dreams.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 cm × 33 cm
Location
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA