Salvador Dali Melting Clock

Find the exact salvador dali melting clock you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. In our selection of items, you can find Surrealist examples as well as a Pop Art version. If you’re looking for a salvador dali melting clock from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right salvador dali melting clock is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes beige and black. Creating a salvador dali melting clock has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Salvador Dalí are consistently popular. Frequently made by artists working in paper, etching and lithograph, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

A salvador dali melting clock can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $3,750, while the lowest priced sells for $500 and the highest can go for as much as $445,000.

Instantly recognizable by his waxed, upturned mustache, the flamboyant Salvador Dalí is one of modern art’s most distinctive figures. He is also one of the icons of the 20th-century avant-garde Surrealist movement, whose dreamlike images, drawn from the depths of the unconscious, he deployed in paintings, sculptures, prints and fashion, as well as in film collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock.

Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia, and even as a youngster, displayed the sensitivity, sharp perception and vivid imagination that would later define his artworks. In these, he conjured childhood memories and employed religious symbols and Freudian imagery like staircases, keys and dripping candles to create unexpected, often shocking pieces.

Dalí's use of hyperrealism in conveying Surrealist symbols and concepts that subvert accepted notions of reality is epitomized in what is perhaps his most recognizable painting, The Persistence of Memory (1931), in which he depicts the fluidity of time through melting clocks, their forms inspired by Camembert cheese melting in the sun. His artistic genius, eccentric personality and eternal quest for fame made him a global celebrity.

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure,” he once said. “That of being Salvador Dalí.”

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