Hans Bellmer — CNAC Exhibition Invitation, Centre national d’art contemporain, Paris, 1971–72

Exhibition invitation / vernissage card
Centre national d’art contemporain, 11 rue Berryer, Paris 8
30 November 1971 – 17 January 1972

Offset print on pink card stock; blank verso
8 × 11 cm

Condition: good vintage condition; light surface wear, age toning, faint marks and minor handling traces consistent with period paper ephemera.

A small CNAC announcement card reduced to its administrative essentials: institution, address, dates, artist, opening time, entrance fee. No image, no explanation. Just Bellmer placed into circulation by the French contemporary art system.

Bellmer’s work had moved from Surrealist disturbance into institutional history by this point. His dolls, drawings, photographs and erotic anatomical distortions were no longer only scandalous private images; they were being absorbed into museum and archive structures. This card records that transfer. It is not the catalogue, not the exhibition, not the artwork — but the paper threshold through which the exhibition entered public time.

As object: a minor printed support, scarce in survival, holding the movement from announcement to retained document.

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