• Paul Klee, Galerie Berggruen exhibition card recto. Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1964. Vivid orange card. Black line drawing printed directly onto the orange ground: a perspective view of an interior space — a studio or exhibition room — rendered in loose, energetic ink line. The room contains suspended objects, shelving, a central table or plinth, geometric structures, and an eye motif on the right wall. Radiating lines suggest light or spatial tension from a central ceiling fixture. A curved arrow in the low
  • Paul Klee, Galerie Berggruen exhibition card inside spread. Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1964. Bifold card open flat. Left panel: plain vivid orange, no text. Right panel: vivid orange ground with centred text in black italic serif type in French: 'A l'occasion de la parution de l'album / Paul Klee – 12 aquarelles / la Galerie Berggruen présentera du / 5 Octobre au 30 Novembre 1964 / un choix d'œuvres de Klee / 70 Rue de l'Université – Paris VII'. Light handling wear and minor surface marks.
  • Paul Klee, Galerie Berggruen exhibition card exterior back. Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1964. Plain vivid orange card, no text or image. Narrow strip of unbleached/faded cream visible along the top edge where the card was stored or folded, showing differential sun-bleaching. Minor surface marks and age toning.
  • Paul Klee, Galerie Berggruen exhibition card outside spread shown open flat. Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1964. Left panel: plain vivid orange with narrow faded cream strip along top edge from differential sun-bleaching. Right panel: vivid orange ground with black line drawing — perspective view of an interior space with suspended objects, shelving, geometric structures, eye motif, and radiating lines from a central ceiling fixture. Curved arrow in lower centre. Handwritten caption at lower right in small scri
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Paul Klee — 12 Aquarelles, Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1964

Paul Klee — 12 Aquarelles, Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1964

£120.00 GBP
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Galerie Berggruen, 70 Rue de l’Université, Paris VII
Original folded exhibition invitation card
Orange folded card; black printed text and line drawing to recto; exhibition text to interior
Image after Perspective — Raum Clu, 1928/29
Exhibition dates: 5 October – 30 November 1964

Condition: Good vintage condition. Sun-fading and toning, light edge wear, handling marks, and age-related discoloration consistent with period exhibition ephemera.

Original invitation issued to coincide with the publication of Paul Klee — 12 Aquarelles, a Berggruen portfolio project circulating Klee’s works on paper through a postwar Paris market. The printed image reproduces a perspective drawing from 1928/29 — part of Klee’s ‘ghost chamber’ works, where perspective is treated as unstable structure: interior space reduced to a skeletal, almost theatrical diagram.

By the 1960s, Klee’s position had shifted from Bauhaus-era experimenter to canonised modernist. Berggruen’s programme played a key role in this transition, distributing his work through albums, exhibitions, and printed matter that functioned as both documentation and extension of the work itself. This card sits precisely in that space: a small-format support where reproduction, publication, and exhibition converge.

A minor but exact object — paper carrying the afterlife of a 1920s drawing into 1964 Paris circulation.

Ships flat with protective backing.

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