Some ants are swarming on a gold item in the lower left corner, while the middle of the painting features a ridge over which some sort of fleshy object is draped.  
This work lent its name to a biography of its artist by Meredith Etherington-Smith.  In the right background is a small egg-shaped object, which sits at the foot of some cliffs at the edge of the sea.  It originated as a landscape of the seashore at Cape Creus, where the artist had been on vacation with his wife when a lunch of Camembert inspired some of its most famous features.  In the upper left rests a plane surface of some sort, while the lower left contains a brown platform from which a small tree is growing.  Some ants are swarming on a gold item in the lower left corner, while the middle of the painting features a ridge over which some sort of fleshy object is draped.  FTP, name this 1931 painting best known for its three melted timepieces, a work of Salvador Dali.
This work lent its name to a biography of its artist by Meredith Etherington-Smith.  
The Persistence of Memory