![The Persistence of Memory](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjM4NjQ3MCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MCAtcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MTQ0MFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=ab8484b4185dd458) Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 × 13" (24.1 × 33 cm). [[Salvador Dalí|Dalí]]'s most famous painting, depicting melting watches draped across a dreamlike landscape of [[Port Lligat]]. A seminal work of [[Surrealism]], exploring the fluidity of time through the [[Paranoiac-Critical Method|paranoiac-critical method]].