OLIVIER MOSSET — Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1969

Offset print on red card stock. Approx. 10.5 × 13.5 cm. Galerie Rive Droite, 3 rue de Duras, Paris 8e. 5–25 December 1969. Vernissage 5 December, 18h30.

The card is almost without image. A red field. Black type. Venue, address, dates, opening time. Information replaces illustration. The object does not describe the exhibition so much as state its administrative fact — a position entirely consistent with Mosset’s practice at the end of the 1960s, when painting was being reduced to repetition, neutrality, and the refusal of expressive difference.

Between 1966 and 1974, Mosset produced his serial circle paintings: a body of work inseparable from the debates around BMPT and the broader dismantling of authorship and pictorial identity. This invitation belongs to that moment. The severe typography and unmodulated red ground read less as design than as declaration. No image, no seduction, no explanation. A card that behaves with the same restraint as the work it announces.

One of his earliest solo presentations in Paris. Galerie Rive Droite is documented in Mosset’s bibliography as the site of his first Paris exhibitions. Comparable early material from this period is seldom encountered.

Condition: good to very good. Light surface wear and handling marks consistent with age.