Dali's The Persistence of Memory
1931 · Work
Soft, melting clocks in a Catalan landscape; one of the most famous Surrealist paintings.
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- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)