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

Private view invitation card. Offset print on card stock. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. 30 June – 11 October 1987.

Recto reproduces Artaud's Portrait de Jany de Ruy, 2 July 1947 — graphite and greasy coloured chalk on paper, made at the maison de santé du Dr Delmas, Ivry. Signed and dated by Artaud at lower centre. The work is held by the Musée national d'art moderne / Centre Pompidou.

The 1987 exhibition gathered Artaud's graphic work at the Salle d'Art Graphique, 4th floor: early Sorts of 1939, calligraphed and burned letters, later drawings from 1948, notebooks, correspondence. More than sixty drawings, many leaving private collections for the first time.

This card is not the catalogue. It is the access object — the institutional surface through which Artaud's drawings entered the museum: name, date, room, press hour, invitation status, reproduced wound.

Not a reproduction in the ordinary sense. Not a later document. A surviving exhibition support from the opening structure itself, held outside the institutional archive.

The catalogue remains traceable. The invitation does not circulate in the same way. Its function was temporary: admit, announce, disappear. Here it survives as a small Pompidou object, carrying Artaud's late graphic violence in reduced administrative form.

A borderline artwork-object: Artaud's drawing translated into museum card, the museum card returned to circulation as image, document, and support.