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Painting

The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí

Soft watches on a Catalan ledge. Small, exact, and not for sale.

Artist
Salvador Dalí
Date
1931
Medium
Oil on canvas
Movement
Surrealism
Origin
Spain
Where it is
Museum of Modern Art, New York

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