• Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — exhibition catalogue, front cover. Staple-bound wraps, offset print, black and white. Title in French: Première Exposition (oeuvres 1954–1961), Seconde Exposition (oeuvres 1962–63).
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955–1959 — interior plate. Black and white photograph of the Combine: a taxidermied angora goat encircled by a rubber tyre, mounted on a painted flatbed base. Caption: "Monogram" · 1955–1959, 183 × 183 × 122 cm.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — back cover. Inserted checklist of works shown in Première Exposition and Seconde Exposition, February–March 1963. Lists Monogram (1955–59), Broadcast (1959), Charlene (1954), and further works with dimensions.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — back cover. Inserted checklist of works shown in Première Exposition and Seconde Exposition, February–March 1963. Lists Monogram (1955–59), Broadcast (1959), Charlene (1954), and further works with dimensions.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — back cover. Inserted checklist of works shown in Première Exposition and Seconde Exposition, February–March 1963. Lists Monogram (1955–59), Broadcast (1959), Charlene (1954), and further works with dimensions.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Hymnal, 1955 — interior plate. Black and white photograph of a large Combine-Painting incorporating patterned fabric, collaged elements, and a recessed white square. Caption: "Hymnal" · 1955, 166 × 153 cm.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — interior plate. Black and white reproduction of a Combine-Painting with layered collage elements and gestural paint passages.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — interior plate. Black and white reproduction of a Combine-Painting with layered collage elements and gestural paint passages.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — interior plate. Black and white reproduction of a Combine-Painting with layered collage elements and gestural paint passages.
  • Robert Rauschenberg, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963 — interior page. French-language biography and exhibition history, 1925–1962. Lists solo exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery and group exhibitions including Documenta II and 16 Americans, MoMA.
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Robert Rauschenberg — Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963

Robert Rauschenberg — Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963

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Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963
Exhibition catalogue
Staple-bound wraps
26.7 × 18.1 cm
Offset print, black and white
[34] pp., 11 plates

Original catalogue issued for Rauschenberg’s first Paris exhibitions at Ileana Sonnabend, structured in two consecutive presentations: Première Exposition (works 1954–1961) and Seconde Exposition (works 1962–1963), February–March 1963.

A thin, working document rather than a retrospective object. The publication holds an early European positioning of Rauschenberg’s Combine logic — Monogram, Charlene, Broadcast — alongside a checklist that reads as inventory, sequence, and assertion.

Contributions by Alain Jouffroy, Lawrence Alloway, Michel Ragon, Françoise Choay, Gillo Dorfles, and John Cage. Inserted checklist included.

Condition: Good. Age toning, light foxing, soft creases to fold and staple line, minor staining to cover. Internally clean, full plate sequence intact. Slight scuffing to rear cover.

Original period item.

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