What year did Dali paint " The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory " ?
Dalí returned to the theme of this painting with the variation " The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory " ( 1954 ) , showing his earlier famous work systematically fragmenting into smaller component elements , and a series of rectangular blocks which reveal further imagery through the gaps between them , implying something beneath the surface of the original work ; this work is now in the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg , Florida , while the original " Persistence of Memory " remains at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City .