MONTRE MOLLE
BY SALVADOR DALI
LIMITED EDITION OF 850 PIECES
LAUNCHED IN 1989
Painter, sculptor, writer, Salvador Dali is one of the greatest masters of
surrealism. His association with Daum began in 1968, with the creation of a
sculpture in păte de verre entitled “Fleur du Mal”, the first in a series of works.
These pieces were quickly acquired by collectors and are now estimated at
ten times their original value.
Dali was born in Figueras, Spain in 1904. He became proficient in many styles
of art while studying in Madrid and Barcelona. By the late 1920s he had
developed his own style of painting for which he became famous. Dali was a
member of a group of artists and writers known as the Paris Surrealists. The
group studied the effects of the subconscious mind over logic. This topic had
became an interest for Dali after he discovered Sigmund Freud's writing on
subconscious imagery. When painting, Dali would put himself into an
hallucinatory state to bring about images from his subconscious mind. He often
painted common place objects and portrayed them in a changed or deformed
way. Dali died January 23, 1989 in Figueres from heart failure. Which brought
to the end the life of a most incredible artist and an extraordinary man. There
may be much controversy surrounding Dali and his works these days but
what can never be taken away from him was his extraordinary way in which
he viewed the world and thanks to his art we get to see a bit of what was
inside of Salvador Dali’s mind and just maybe our own
MONTRE MOLLE
This “Montre Molle”, which is a recurrent theme in Dali’s work, was exploited in
painting and sculpture. Dali defines it as a “Persistence of memory.” It is like a
giant molecule carrying hereditary genetic traits and thus constitutes a symbol
of eternity. This “Montre Molle” hanging from a coat-stand is an incongruous
association and a perfect surrealist creation.