Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, 1963. Exhibition catalogue. Staple-bound wraps, 26.7 × 18.1 cm. Offset print, black and white. [34] pp., 11 plates. Inserted checklist included.
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. The catalogue does not frame the work so much as place it: European context, institutional address, critical alignment, and checklist held together in a single stapled object.
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.
