On July 6, an exhibition of printed graphics (160 works) dedicated to surrealist artists Salvador Dali, Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Giorgio de Chirico will open in the National Gallery of Armenia.
Graphic newspapers (xylography) of the founder of abstract art Wassily Kandinsky from the collection of the director of Argyle gallery (Los-Angeles, U.S.) Christine Argyle will be showed.
Works of Armenian surrealist artists Yervand Kochar, Hakob Hakobian, Levon Tutundzhyan, Gayane Khachaturian, Sergei Parajanov and others will be displayed as well.
The Argyle possesses the largest copper engraving collection of Dali, 120 etchings. Some of them including Songs of Maldoror, Mythology, Faustus, Hippie and others will be displayed in Yerevan. Most works were created in the period from 1934 to 1973; the collection is included in the Gold Engraving Fund of XX century.
Dali got interested in etching at early 1930-ies, in 1934 he made illustrations to the poem of Comte de Lautreamont Isidore Lucien Ducasse known as Songs of Maldoror. The same year he met the famous collector Pierre D’argyll. This meeting benchmarked beginning of 50-years fruitful cooperation.
