{"product_id":"dali-gare-de-perpignan-petit-inv-1977","title":"Salvador Dalí — La Gare de Perpignan — Pair of Exhibition Invitation Cards, Galerie André François Petit, Paris, 1977","description":"\u003cp\u003ePair of original exhibition invitation cards\u003cbr\u003eGalerie André François Petit, 196 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris\u003cbr\u003e22 × 16.5 cm each\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on cream card stock\u003cbr\u003eNovember–December 1977 \/ 8–22 December 1977\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo related invitation cards issued in connection with Salvador Dalí’s late 1977 presentation of \u003cem\u003eLa Gare de Perpignan\u003c\/em\u003e at Galerie André François Petit, Paris. One card reproduces a dark, radiant surreal composition associated with Dalí’s theatrical late-period cosmology; the second presents the exhibition through restrained typographic announcement text, including references to stereoscopic painting experiments and a copper portrait of Gala shown “in process.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition centred around \u003cem\u003eLa Gare de Perpignan\u003c\/em\u003e, one of Dalí’s most mythologized paintings, tied to his declaration that the Perpignan railway station represented the “centre of the universe.” By the late 1970s Dalí was operating simultaneously as Surrealist survivor, celebrity image-maker, luxury cultural figure, and active technical experimenter. The reference to stereoscopic oil painting and the inclusion of Robert Descharnes — Dalí’s close collaborator, photographer, archivist, and later estate authority — places the material directly within the artist’s inner production network during the final decades of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat survives here is not simply exhibition publicity but a small paper structure surrounding the circulation of Dalí in Paris at the end of the 1970s. One card stages the mythology through image; the other reduces the exhibition to administrative language, dates, processes, and institutional framing. Together they form a concise document of how Surrealism persisted through gallery systems, print culture, collector mailing networks, and controlled spectacle long after its historical avant-garde moment had passed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScarcer than later Dalí posters and commercial reproductions, gallery-issued paper ephemera from this period survives irregularly and was rarely preserved systematically.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition overall. Light handling wear, faint age toning, soft edge wear, minor surface marks consistent with surviving gallery ephemera from the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53759867224402,"sku":"DALI-PETIT-INV-1977","price":185.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Dali_Salvador._Show_invite_Galerie_Andre_Drancois_Petit._1977.jpg?v=1781559757","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/dali-gare-de-perpignan-petit-inv-1977","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}