DANCE OF TIME III

The melting clock is the most recognizable Dalinian image and the artist chose to
portray it consistently throughout his lifetime. Dalí became obsessed with the
concept of time and used the melted watch image in many of his works. Dalí
brings to this sculpture a dynamism, where the clock appears to be literally
“dancing”. Unrestrained by the rigid laws of a watch, time, for Dalí, moves to the
rhythm of a perpetual dance, speeding up, slowly down, stretching out, liquefying.
Dalí flips reality, taking the familiar image of a watch which is hard, solid and precise
and inverts its characteristics. It is now the opposite, becoming soft, inaccurate, time
bends to individual meanings.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Date: conceived in 1979, first cast in 1984
Material: bronze
Technique: lost wax process
Edition size : 8 plus 4 EA (plus 2 authorized foundry proofs)
Height : 124 cm
Maquette: original gouache, Dance of Time, 1979
Direct intervention (created by Dalí): the idea, image, and original maquette
Indirect intervention (created by artisans): lost wax process and patina