{"title":"Pablo Picasso","description":"\u003cp\u003ePablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and writer whose long career transformed the course of twentieth-century art. Born in Málaga and trained in Barcelona and Madrid, he settled in Paris in 1904, where the development of Cubism with Georges Braque between 1907 and 1914 fundamentally altered Western pictorial convention. His output across seven decades—spanning \u003cem\u003eLes Demoiselles d'Avignon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e, the Vollard Suite, the Musée Picasso ceramics and the late painting cycles—remained a consistent reference point for subsequent artistic practice. He exhibited at Documenta I in 1955 and his work entered major public collections worldwide during his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"coup-denvois-musee-de-la-poste-1989","title":"Coup d’envois ou l’art à la lettre — Press Dossier, Musée de La Poste, Paris, 1989","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpiral-bound press dossier\u003cbr\u003eMusée de La Poste, 34 boulevard de Vaugirard, Paris XVe\u003cbr\u003ePhotocopied and offset printed internal documentation\u003cbr\u003e10 January – 25 March 1989\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare spiral-bound press dossier produced for \u003cem\u003eCoup d’envois ou l’art à la lettre\u003c\/em\u003e, a large-scale 1989 exhibition at the Musée de La Poste examining correspondences between mail systems, conceptual art, artist communication networks, poetry, Fluxus strategies, and postal circulation. Includes references to more than one hundred artists and writers, among them Joseph Beuys, Roland Barthes, Carl Andre, Marcel Broodthaers, On Kawara, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jean Tinguely, Arman, and others associated with conceptual art, mail art, postwar European avant-garde networks, institutional critique, and systems-based artistic circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced as a press dossier rather than a trade publication, the object retains the administrative texture of late-1980s institutional culture: photocopied pages, spiral binding, internal distribution logic, informational formatting, and temporary documentary function. Precisely because of this, the publication now feels unusually close to contemporary conversations around networks, circulation systems, delegated authorship, archives, metadata, communication infrastructures, and post-digital artistic identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title itself — “Coup d’envois” (“postal dispatch” \/ “sending strike”) — transforms the exhibition into a system of transmission rather than a fixed exhibition event.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeen now, the object feels unexpectedly adjacent to Philippe Thomas, Seth Siegelaub, Fluxus mail networks, early conceptual distribution systems, and contemporary platform-based image circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light age toning, handling wear, softened corners, surface rubbing, and minor institutional wear consistent with archive retention and administrative circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA temporary communication structure retained long enough to become object again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53726687560018,"sku":"BEUYS-LAPOSTE-CAT-1989","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Beuys_Joseph._Barthes_Roland._Carl_Andre._Picasso._Warhol._Coup_d_envois_ou_l_art_a_la_lettre_1989.jpg?v=1781246951"},{"product_id":"alex-israel-la-californie-almine-rech-paris-2023","title":"ALEX ISRAEL, LA Californie, Almine Rech, Paris, 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlex Israel\u003cbr\u003eLA Californie\u003cbr\u003eAlmine Rech, Paris Matignon, 2023\u003cbr\u003eExhibition invitation · 14.5 × 19 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset-printed card stock, recto and verso\u003cbr\u003e15 October–10 November 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recto reproduces André Villers’ 1959 photograph \u003cem\u003ePortrait of Picasso with Gary Cooper’s hat and gun\u003c\/em\u003e — Picasso in striped shirt, cowboy hat and revolver. The verso carries the exhibition title and details in large condensed typography. The photograph was a primary source for \u003cem\u003eLA Californie\u003c\/em\u003e, including Israel’s large-scale \u003cem\u003eSelf Portrait (After André Villers…)\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLA Californie\u003c\/em\u003e was Israel’s fifth solo exhibition with Almine Rech in Paris. Taking Picasso’s Cannes villa La Californie as its starting point, Israel connected Picasso’s carefully constructed public image with his own longstanding interest in Hollywood, celebrity, props and the performance of the artist as cultural figure. Historical objects, movie props and Israel’s paintings were deliberately placed together, blurring distinctions between artwork, artifact and artifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs printed matter, the invitation condenses that logic particularly well: an already iconic photograph of Picasso is recirculated to announce an exhibition in which Israel uses Picasso to examine the manufacture of artistic identity. Image becomes source, source becomes advertisement, advertisement becomes retained object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good; light handling and minor surface and edge wear consistent with use. 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The exhibition marked the presentation of Éditions Cercle d'Art's publication reproducing in facsimile drawings from three of Picasso's working notebooks. The French edition was issued in 666 numbered copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe notebooks, made between April and October 1964, gathered 71 reproduced drawings — 27 in colour — with an introductory text by the poet and critic Jean Marcenac. Marcenac had written on Picasso since the 1940s and was among the sustained critical voices around his late work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation is unusually spare and elongated. The cover carries only Picasso's name, the title in brown serif type, and Marcenac's name. Opened, one panel reproduces an excerpt from Marcenac's text; the opposite gives the exhibition details. Heavy cream stock, a pronounced deckled lower edge and the visible paper surface give what was essentially temporary promotional matter the physical presence of a small publication in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA precise example of the point at which exhibition announcement, publishing history and artist ephemera meet: the book was made to preserve Picasso's notebooks; this card was made simply to announce its arrival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good vintage condition. Light overall toning, minor handling and slight softening around the fold and edges. Deckled lower edge as issued. 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