Centre Georges Pompidou

Exhibition ephemera, printed matter, and documents issued by or in connection with the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris — one of the world’s leading institutions for modern and contemporary art, design, and culture.

  • Buñuel film still, yellow-black offset print, Cela s'appelle l'aurore, Centre Pompidou invitation recto ¡Todo Buñuel! inauguration programme, Centre Pompidou, Instituto Cervantes, Paris, 2000

    Luis Buñuel — ¡Todo Buñuel! Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2000

    Luis Buñuel — ¡Todo Buñuel! Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2000

  • Recto Günter Brus, Watteaus Rache, 1983. Invitation recto, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987. Colour reproduction on amber-gold ground — contorted nude figure in red-orange line arches backward, body merging into a sweeping curve across the composition; cascade of white lines pours downward at centre; blue-grey cloud forms at edges; 'WATTEAUS RACHE' inscribed upper left, signature and date upper right. Verso Günter Brus, Dessins autrichiens dans les collections du Cabinet d'art graphique, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987. Invitation verso: formal invitation text in black serif centred on cream-white card — Maheu and Ceysson credits, exhibition title in bold, date 31 March 1987, venue and hours; exhibition title repeated in large pale grey watermark type below; Centre Georges Pompidou logo lower left; image credit and 'Invitation valable pour deux personnes' lower right. Age toning, scattered spotting.

    GÜNTER BRUS — Dessins autrichiens dans les collections du Cabinet d’art graphique. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987

    GÜNTER BRUS — Dessins autrichiens dans les collections du Cabinet d’art graphique. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987

  • Recto — Clownpout (4) reproduction Roni Horn, Dessins / Drawings / Disegni, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Centre Pompidou, Venice, 2004. Exhibition invitation recto: full-bleed colour reproduction of Clownpout (4), 2002 — two photographic heads cut apart and interlocked, face appearing simultaneously doubled, blurred and partially erased; pale pink and white tones, open mouth visible at centre, features dissolved into abstraction; lower edge, horizontal strip with institutional logos and text in small bl Verso — exhibition details Roni Horn, Dessins / Drawings / Disegni, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Centre Pompidou, Venice, 2004. Exhibition invitation verso: white card, almost entirely unprinted; upper left, small black sans-serif text — "Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Comune di Venezia / La S.V. è invitata / all'inaugurazione della mostra / Roni Horn / Dessins/ Drawings/ Disegni / a cura di Jonas Storsve / Sabato 31 gennaio 2004 / ore 18.30 / Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa / Piazza San Marco, 71/c / Vene

    RONI HORN — Dessins / Drawings / Disegni. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Centre Pompidou, Venice, 2004 [invitation]

    RONI HORN — Dessins / Drawings / Disegni. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Centre Pompidou, Venice, 2004 [invitation]

  • Front cover — institutional title strip Roni Horn, Dessins / Drawings / Disegni, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Centre Pompidou, Venice, 2004. Exhibition booklet front cover: fluorescent yellow-green wrappers; narrow vertical grey institutional title strip along left edge — double-B logo of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in black above, then "FONDAZIONE / BEVILACQUA / LA MASA" in small black type, then "Centre / Pompidou" in black, then "Galleria di Piazza San Marco, / Venezia", then "Roni Horn / Dessins/Dr Interior spread — pages 8–9 Roni Horn, Dessins / Drawings / Disegni, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Centre Pompidou, Venice, 2004. Exhibition booklet interior spread, pages 8–9: left page, bibliography column upper left listing Horn publications — Pooling Waters (1999), Bluff Life (2000s), Lava (2001–02), Another Water (2002), Cão Comum (2006) — followed by essay "Roni Horn a Venezia" by Angela Vettese in two columns of small Italian serif type, discussing Horn's relationship to water, Iceland, photography

    RONI HORN — Dessins / Drawings / Disegni. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Centre Pompidou, Venice, 2004

    RONI HORN — Dessins / Drawings / Disegni. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa / Centre Pompidou, Venice, 2004

  • Front cover of the 1985 Achille Castiglioni exhibition invitation, featuring a bold blue and black graphic image with red side borders for *du design au ready-made* at Centre Georges Pompidou. Original 1985 Centre Georges Pompidou invitation for *Achille Castiglioni: du design au ready-made*, printed in red typography on off-white card with exhibition details and Pompidou logo.

    Achille Castiglioni — Du design au ready-made — Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1985

    Achille Castiglioni — Du design au ready-made — Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1985

  • Original 1987 Antonin Artaud Dessins exhibition invitation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris — recto reproducing Artaud's Portrait de Jany de Ruy, 2 July 1947: portrait head in graphite and greasy coloured chalk with blue wash, surrounded by dense handwritten text in French, signed and dated antonin artaud / 2 juillet 1947 at lower centre. Reverse of 1987 Antonin Artaud Dessins exhibition invitation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris — verso showing formal inauguration invitation text from Jean Maheu, Président du Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, and Bernard Ceysson, Directeur du Musée National d'Art Moderne; exhibition dates 30 June–11 October 1987, Salle d'Art Graphique 4e étage; large typeset ANTONIN ARTAUD / DESSINS; Centre Georges Pompidou logo lower left; invitation valable pour deux personnes.

    ANTONIN ARTAUD — Dessins, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987

    ANTONIN ARTAUD — Dessins, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987