Salvador Dalí Le Profil Du Temps
Photo Credit: christie’s
Signed 'Dalí' (on the top of the base); stamped with foundry mark 'CERA PERSA PERSEO SA MENDRISIO' and numbered '5/8' (on the back edge of the base)
bronze with green, gold and brown patina
380 x 259 x 200 cm. (149 5/8 x 102 7/8 x 78 3/4 in.)
Conceived in 1977, this monumental edition cast in a numbered edition of 8 plus 4épreuves d’artiste
Provenance
I.A.R. Art Resources Ltd.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in February 2011.
Robert & Nicolas Descharnes confirmed the authenticity of this work in 2011.
Creativity, Dalí is the quintessential Surrealist artist and undoubtedly one of the most celebrated avant-garde artists of the 20th Century. His work combines the real with the imaginary, exploring the objects placed in unlikely and seemingly nonsensical combinations to evoke the unconscious mind, discovering the world of dreams and what lies deep in the human subconscious.
Restaging the theme of the melting clock on a grand, monumental scale, Le profil du temps brings one of the most entrancing images of Salvador Dalí into the third dimension. Melting clocks first made their appearance in his 1931 painting, The Persistence of Memory, now housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which would become an archetype of the Surrealist genre. From then on, the melting clocks became a significant reoccurring theme in the artist’s oeuvre. This pivotal surrealist painting brought Salvador Dalí
an enormous fame that shone throughout his artistic career and carries through on to the present day.
