James Brown — Salt, Peintures récentes — Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1990

Original exhibition invitation booklet / folded announcement
Offset print on coated paper stock
Galerie Lelong, 13 & 14 rue de Téhéran, Paris 8e
Exhibition dates: 31 May – 23 June 1990; vernissage 31 May 1990, 18:00
Condition: very good; light handling wear, minor age toning and soft surface marks consistent with period paper ephemera

Original period invitation issued for James Brown’s Salt – Peintures récentes at Galerie Lelong, Paris. The folded booklet includes a reproduced painting to the cover and interior exhibition details. The interior also notes that the accompanying publication Repères no. 67 contained a preface by Jean Frémon.

By 1990, James Brown had established an international position, moving between New York, Paris, and later Mexico while developing a language that sat between abstraction, figuration, and archaic symbolism. His paintings often combined gestural marks with bodily fragments, masks, signs, and totemic forms that appeared both ancient and contemporary. The ultramarine blue figure reproduced on the cover is characteristic of this period: an unstable form somewhere between silhouette, icon, and sign.

The reverse of the booklet also functions as a document of the Paris gallery network in 1990, listing concurrent exhibitions at Galerie Pierre Birtschansky, Galerie Louis Carré & Cie, Galerie Mathias Fels, Galerie Éric Galfard, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Galerie Lahumière, and Galerie Lelong — with artists including François Dufrêne, André Lanskoy, Tal-Coat, and Alan Reynolds.

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