{"product_id":"paul-klee-musee-national-art-moderne-paris-1969","title":"Paul Klee — Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1969","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Paris\u003cbr\u003eExhibition invitation (carton d’invitation)\u003cbr\u003eBlind-embossed laid card; offset lithograph reproduction to recto; printed invitation text to interior\u003cbr\u003eInauguration: Tuesday 25 November 1969, 15h–20h\u003cbr\u003eMusée National d’Art Moderne, 13 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris 16\u003cbr\u003eInvitation valid for two persons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Even toning to laid stock, light handling wear consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOfficial invitation issued under the authority of the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs for a major retrospective of Paul Klee at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. The card is printed on high-quality laid paper bearing a blind-embossed manufacturer’s mark (‘LES MANUFACTURES D’ANSONS’), situating it within a tradition of refined French art publishing and state-issued cultural material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recto reproduces Klee’s 1924 drawing \u003cem\u003eIn der Segel-von-Taschen-Klip-Klap-Anstalt\u003c\/em\u003e, produced during his Bauhaus years. The work stages a mechanical, quasi-architectural fiction — part satire, part diagram — reflecting Klee’s resistance to rigid functionalism and his insistence on intuition within structured systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interior text formalises the invitation through Monsieur Edmond Michelet, then Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, marking the exhibition as a state-level cultural event. The card operates less as a simple announcement and more as an administrative object: a controlled document issued to a limited network of officials, collectors, and institutional figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted support for the alignment of artist, state, and institution. A minor document carrying the consolidation of Klee within postwar French cultural policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat with protective backing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musée National d’Art Moderne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53465970213202,"sku":"PK-MNAM-1969","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Klee_Paul._National_Museum_of_Modern_Art_Paris._Show_invitation._1969_front.jpg?v=1778995207","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/paul-klee-musee-national-art-moderne-paris-1969","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}