{"product_id":"rene-magritte-la-fidelite-des-images-cinematographe-photographie-arc2-paris-1976","title":"René Magritte — La Fidélité des Images: Le cinématographe et la photographie, ARC 2, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1976","description":"\u003cp\u003e12 × 17 cm. Offset print on thin card. Very good vintage condition with light age toning and minor handling wear consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal exhibition invitation issued for \u003cem\u003eLa Fidélité des Images: René Magritte – Le cinématographe et la photographie\u003c\/em\u003e, ARC 2, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris. Vernissage: 5 November 1976, 18:00–21:00. Exhibition: 5 November – 5 December 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA printed announcement for an exhibition concerned not with Magritte’s paintings but with the photographs and films that had remained largely outside public view. The invitation precedes the catalogue, the reviews, and the subsequent place these images would occupy within the artist’s history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reproduction on the front performs a simple transfer. A private photograph — \u003cem\u003eL’amour\u003c\/em\u003e, one of Magritte’s staged images — becomes an exhibition image; the exhibition image becomes a mailed object. The invitation does not reproduce the exhibition so much as initiate its circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganised nearly a decade after the artist’s death in 1967, the exhibition was among the earliest institutional projects devoted specifically to Magritte’s photographic and cinematic activities rather than his paintings. It helped establish photography and cinema as essential components of his surrealist practice and was accompanied by the influential catalogue edited with texts by Louis Scutenaire. This reassessment has since become foundational to understanding Magritte’s broader practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts original function was temporary. Distribution ended when the exhibition closed. What remains is a small administrative support recording the moment Magritte’s photographic practice entered institutional visibility. Examples appear only infrequently on the secondary market, particularly outside institutional archives, making surviving invitations noticeably scarcer than the accompanying catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53804367577426,"sku":"MAGRITTE-MAMPARIS-INV-1976","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Magritte_Rene._Show_invite_le_cinematographe_et_la_photographie_._1976.jpg?v=1781967033","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/rene-magritte-la-fidelite-des-images-cinematographe-photographie-arc2-paris-1976","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}