For 10 points, name this artist of The Persistence of Memory.
This artist claimed that a "cosmic dream" inspired one of his crucifixion scenes based on a friar's sketch. This artist placed a depiction of San Narciso in a painting whose bottom features an urchin and a self-portrait as a monk bearing a cross, an homage to a theory denying the Italian identity of a certain (*) explorer. This artist included a giant fish in a re-imagining of an earlier painting that uses a Catalan bay as the background for a scene with a white "monster" and melting clocks. For 10 points, name this artist of The Persistence of Memory.
This artist claimed that a "cosmic dream" inspired one of his crucifixion scenes based on a friar's sketch.
Salvador Dalí