# the painting with the melted clocks **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 23, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935 "2000-10-23T02:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/1 "2000-10-23T02:35:08Z")
i can’t remember the name of the painting with the melted clocks, nor the name of the painter. a friend of mine desperately wants to buy a print of this as a gift, but we can’t find it. help? ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/2 "2000-10-23T02:39:44Z")
Salvadore Dali. _The Persistence of Time_. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/3 "2000-10-23T02:40:07Z")
“Persistence of Memory” (1931) Salvador Dali ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/4 "2000-10-23T02:48:23Z")
Just triple-checked. It’s “The Persistence of Memory.” God’s honest truth, though, it’s far from Dali’s best. Try to find a print of “Illumined Pleasures” (1929), “Autumn Cannabalism” (1936), or “The Matamorphosis of Narcissus” (1937). For what it’s worth, Dali did a “sequal” to “The Persistence of Memory” in 1952-4 called “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.” Sir ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/5 "2000-10-23T02:48:33Z")
ah, you guys rock! ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/6 "2000-10-23T02:50:48Z")
thanks for checking sir rhosis. i’d pass on your recommendation, but the person for whom the gift is intended has a special preference for this painting. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/7 "2000-10-23T02:50:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Rhosis \* > \*\*“Persistence of Memory” (1931) > > Salvador Dali \*\* D’oh! Any second now Satan’s gonna show up in here and notice that I had the Anthrax album named _The Persistence of Time_ inexplicably in my head when I replied. The “e” at the end of Salvador is just plain ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![RESOL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@RESOL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RESOL)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/8 "2000-10-23T02:56:33Z")
make sure you see the movie Dali made… “the Dali is not insane” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/9 "2000-10-23T03:03:13Z")
's oaky, Montfort. I had to take my print down from the wall and check, then went to a couple of books I have on Dali. I often call it “Persistence of Vision,” but hardly anyone catches me on it. Sir ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/10 "2000-10-23T13:13:56Z")
And handshakes and a hearty congratulations all around for avoiding the obvious “Hello, Dali!” and “Dali Lama” puns. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/11 "2000-10-23T14:17:04Z")
Dali factoid: When SD wanted to take a little nap (he was, apparently, a prolific napper) he would fall asleep in an upright chair, holding a teaspoon in one hand. As he drifted off, his hand relaxed, dropped the spoon, which on hitting the tile floor, woke him up. This, he claimed, was a sufficiently restful nap. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/12 "2000-10-23T14:53:39Z")
My screen saver is a slideshow of about a dozen of Dali’s works. The movie that was referred to is “Andalusian Dog” (Chien Andalusian (or something pretty close to that) in the original Spanish). Surrealism at its best. Try not to flinch when the razor blade slices across the woman’s eye. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/13 "2000-10-23T15:12:14Z")
[Un chien andalou (1929)](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0020530) The original _The Persistence of Memory_ is hanging in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It was a lot smaller than I expected. ---
**Author:** ![Voorvie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@Voorvie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voorvie)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/14 "2000-10-23T15:26:28Z")
There’s a museum in St. Petersburg, Florida that is all Dali. He’s my favorite painter, and this place is amazing! He’s got a few pieces that are about 18 feet high and 8 feet across with the most amazing detail. If you’re ever in the area, I highly recommend a visit. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/15 "2000-10-23T15:46:42Z")
try [ebay.com](http://ebay.com) for a print. Or once youfind it online, you could print it out & put a frame around it :-0 ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/16 "2000-10-23T16:18:35Z")
**Cessandra** , I have a print of _The Persistance of Memory_. I have no place to put it on my walls and no intention of putting it up if I did. I would **love** to give it away to someone! Would you like to have it? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/17 "2000-10-23T16:34:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Voorvie \* > \*\*There’s a museum in St. Petersburg, Florida that is all Dali. \*\* The businessman who owns the paintings used to have them on display near Cleveland, Ohio. I visited the galleries several times when I was a teenager in the 1970s. Then Florida offered him a tax break or something, so like a spoiled little girl, he packed up his Dalis and moved down there. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/18 "2000-10-23T16:34:49Z")
When Salvador died he left his family several thousand signed and numbered blank sheets of paper, so that the family could issue genuine signed and numbered Dali prints after his death when their value increased. Keith ---
**Author:** ![jmullaney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@jmullaney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmullaney)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/19 "2000-10-23T16:43:33Z")
There is also “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.” That also has the melting clocks, er, even more melted. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/20 "2000-10-23T20:16:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Five \* > \*\ ***Cessandra** , I have a print of _The Persistance of Memory_. I have no place to put it on my walls and no intention of putting it up if I did. I would **love** to give it away to someone! Would you like to have it? > \*\* whoa, are you serious? i would adore you forever! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935.md?page=2)