Did your artist friend have a large pointed moustache Old dude?

The picture is either a Dali copy, or the artist was strongly influenced by Salvador Dali.
The tones, the melting clock faces, drape of the cloth,desert landscape plus the heavy eroticism all point to 1930's Dali.

I have often visited Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum to see Dali's painting of the Crucifiction of St John.....an extremely powerful work.