Santiago de Compostella

Santiago de Compostella

 In 1969, Pierre Argillet came back from India with many photographs, which Dalí used as groundwork to create a series entitled “Les Hippies,” his interpretation of the “Love and Peace” years. The etchings reveal the superb, spontaneous, and consummate technique of...
The Egrets

The Egrets

Venus in Furs was a novel by Austrian author, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose word and name are the inspiration and origin of the word “masochism.” It is a novel about a man whose chief pleasure was to be thrashed by a beautiful woman wearing nothing more than a fur...
The Turtle Mountains

The Turtle Mountains

Amid the Cultural Revolution in China, soon followed by the May 1968 riots in France, Pierre Argillet brought the book “Poems” by Mao Zedong to Dali. Tickled, the artist decided to create eight illustrations, some of which were political satires.  Turtle Mountain...

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