In this powerful bronze sculpture, Dalí has depicted a woman holding the stem of a rose aloft, whilst cradling the classic Dalínian symbol of time in her arms: the melted clock, or ‘soft watch’. The elegance and graceful form of the woman’s dress recalls the ‘Liberty Style’ popular in the early twentieth century and echoes the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in 1885.