September 6, 2013 - 18:01 AMT
Houston’s Off the Wall Gallery to feature Salvador Dali exhibition

Off the Wall Gallery, Houston’s most prestigious fine art gallery announced presentation of Salvador Dali: The Argillet Collection. The collection is on exhibition and available for acquisition at the gallery beginning Saturday, September 21, 2013, The Paper said.

The exhibition is a rare opportunity to meet Madame Christine Argillet, daughter of Dali's legendary publisher and confidante Pierre Argillet, during two scheduled special appearances by Madame Argillet for the public.

Salvador Dali's publisher, Pierre Argillet (1910-2001) and Dali enjoyed a collaboration and a friendship that spanned five decades; and produced what art historians have termed "the finest bodies of the Master's Art".

Pierre Argillet's body of Dali's etchings, original works and books appear in museums throughout the world, and have enjoyed a home at the Museum of Surrealism in Melun, France (Pierre Argillet's former home "Chateau Vaux-le-Penil" and former museum) as well as in the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The collection is also housed at the prestigious Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Together, Argillet & Dali created remarkable editions of original prints, lived the true "Surrealists" life, and developed images that are prized by collectors today.

This exhibition and collection opportunity offers works from Dali's Suites, including Mythologie, Les Hippies, Goethe's Faust, and the incomparable Poemes Secrets d'Apollinaire. Madame Argillet has also included the rare titles, Etchings and Watercolors from 1934 to the late 1960's.