BERNARD RANCILLAC — Pornographie, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1969

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1969. Single exhibition invitation card, 16.6 × 13.5 cm. Black on white coated stock.

Issued for Rancillac’s Pornographie, Galerie Daniel Templon, 58 rue Bonaparte, Paris, 22 April – 3 May 1969. Marked strictement sur invitation.

Black illustration to recto — a high-contrast photographic image reduced to printed signal. Black text to verso: gallery name, address, exhibition title, dates, and the controlled-access notice that defined the terms of entry.

More than a simple announcement, the card preserves the threshold where exhibition, scandal, and circulation briefly met. Produced at an early and charged moment in the history of Galerie Daniel Templon, it carries the atmosphere of late-1960s Paris in a particularly concise way — both invitation and filter, a small paper document through which the exhibition was framed, restricted, and made public only in part.

What remains is not just an advertisement for a show, but a retained access piece: a document of entry, discretion, provocation, and display.

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear, faint surface marking, soft age toning, and a pressure crease to the lower edge consistent with prior storage. Original period item.