• Robert Kushner, 'The dance, the kiss,...', exhibition invitation recto. Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1979. Black-and-white reproduction of a large-scale drawing or print: two figures in close embrace, faces almost touching in a near-kiss. The woman on the left has wavy hair and closed eyes; the man on the right wears a suit and tie, head tilted toward her. Her dress or top is rendered with dense teardrop or scale-like patterning across the bodice and shoulders. Bold, fluid black line work on white ground,
  • Robert Kushner, 'The dance, the kiss,...', exhibition invitation verso. Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1979. Cream card. Header in bold sans-serif caps: 'DANIEL TEMPLON / 30, rue Beaubourg. Paris 3. 272.14.10'. Below in bold: 'ROBERT KUSHNER'. Below in italic: '"The dance, the kiss,..."'. Exhibition dates in French: 'du 31 mars au 3 mai 1979 / vernissage le samedi 31 mars de 10 h à 19 h'. Plain typographic layout on cream stock. Light age toning and minor surface marks.
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Robert Kushner — “The dance, the kiss,…”

Robert Kushner — “The dance, the kiss,…”

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Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1979
Exhibition invitation card
15 × 10 cm
Offset print on card stock; black-and-white image to recto; exhibition details printed to verso
Exhibition dates: 31 March – 3 May 1979
Vernissage: Saturday 31 March, 10h–19h
Galerie Daniel Templon, 30 rue Beaubourg, Paris

Condition: Very good. Light age toning, minor handling wear, faint edge/corner softening consistent with period exhibition ephemera.

Original invitation card issued for Robert Kushner’s solo exhibition “The dance, the kiss,…” at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1979. The recto carries a cropped black-and-white image of entwined figures, while the verso is almost entirely administrative: gallery name, artist, title, dates, and opening hours.

Kushner was a central figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, which emerged in the 1970s as a deliberate turn away from the austerity of Minimalism and Conceptual art. His work from this period brought together ornament, fabric, gesture, eroticism, and performance-like figuration. This Paris invitation places that language inside a small printed support: sensual image on one side, institutional record on the other.

A retained document from a key late-1970s moment in Kushner’s European reception.

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