Salvador Dali
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Profile of Time , 1984
Bronze
- 20.0 " x 13.3 " x 14.0 "
- Echoing Dali' 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, in which the famous melted watch appears for the first time, this sculpture is an ingenious creation - full of symbolism and hidden meanings. Dali became obsessed with the flow of time and portrays the clock as soft, a type of symbolism he reserved for those objects he loathed. "The mechanical object was to become my worst enemy, and as for watches, they would have to be soft, or not be at all!"
The soft watch liquefies lamentably over the tree forming a double image. Tilting one's head to the left a hidden image appears; the clock face changes into the artists profile, an eye, a pointed nose and the 9 suggestive of Dali's moustache. Dali enjoyed surprising people and encouraged them to participate in his art.
The shape of limp clock immediately recalls Dali's 1929 work The Great Masturbator, a self-portrait with a distorted long head in profile looking downward. This peculiar shape is based on a specific rock formation in his hometown, emphasizing the influence of Dali's native landscape in his art, besides the olive tree, another significant image for Dali.
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$32,500
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