THE HIPPIES SUITE (1969-70)
all: signed Dali lower right margin and numbered 1XL/C lower left margin; some also with blind stamp lower right
all: drypoint etching with hand colouring on Japan paper
published by Pierre Argillet, Paris
each: 31.5 x 39.5cm; 12 1/4 x 15 1/2in (plate)
each: 71 x 55cm; 28 x 21 1/2in (framed)
(11)

Literature
Ralf Michler and Lutz W. Löpsinger, Salvador Dali, Catalogue Raisonne of Etchings and Mixed-media Prints 1924-1980, Munich, 1994, pp. 377 - 387
Albert Field, The Official Catalog of the Graphic Work of Salvador Dali, Dali Archives, 1996, p. 69 - 13G

Executed in 1969-70, the subject matter of Dali's The Hippies Suite - eleven dry point etchings with handcolouring - was inspired by photographs brought back from a trip to India by his friend and publisher Pierre Argillet (1910-2001), images Dali considered representative of the 'swinging sixties'. Argillet and his wife Genevieve had first met Dali in 1959, and worked together on a series of limited edition albums over the following fifteen years. Collaboration between artist and publisher led to the production of The Mytholopgy Suite (1963-65) and the Poems of Mao Tse-Toung (1967), as well as the present set. Friends with a range of artists aligned with Surrealism, Argillet also published limited editions by Hans Bellmer, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Cocteau and Leonor Fini.

Dali titled each work as follows:
(A) LE VIEL HIPPIE
(B) LES FEMMES-FLEURS AU PIANO
(C) LE COSMONAUTE
(D) LES FEMMES DANS LES VAGUES
(E) LE SOLEIL
(F) LA PAGODE
(G) LE COULOIR DE KATHMANDOU
(H) ST.-JACQUES-DE-COMPOSTELA
(I) LA VACHE SACREE
(J) LA FEMME AU COUSSIN
(K) LE NU A LA JARRETIERE