• Original 1985 Urs Lüthi exhibition invitation for Autoportraits, Galerie Stadler, Paris, front, off-white folded card with black serif text: URS LÜTHI in large centred caps, exhibition title in two series — Grands Sentiments and Croquis Téléphoniques — vernissage date 25 April 18h–20h, and exhibition dates 25 April – 25 May 1985.
  • Interior spread of 1985 Urs Lüthi Autoportraits invitation, Galerie Stadler, Paris, showing two colour reproductions: left, Autoportrait, de la série des grands sentiments, 1985, acrylic on canvas, nude figure on yellow-ochre ground with overlaid black outline drawing; right, Autoportrait, de la série des croquis téléphoniques, 1985, acrylic on canvas, turquoise ground with loose silver-grey gestural line drawing.
  • Reverse of 1985 Urs Lüthi Autoportraits invitation, Galerie Stadler, Paris, showing a biographical note and critical text by R. S. in roman and italic serif type, with gallery address 51 Rue de Seine, 75006 Paris at the foot, and photo credit Roland Gretler / Imp. Union Paris.
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Urs Lüthi — Autoportraits, Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1985

Urs Lüthi — Autoportraits, Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1985

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15.5 × 22.5 cm folded / 31 × 22.5 cm unfolded. Offset print on folded card stock. Photographs: Roland Gretler. Printed by Imp. Union Paris. Good vintage condition with light age toning, handling wear, scattered surface marks, and gentle edge wear consistent with age and use. Fold remains strong.

Original folded exhibition invitation issued by Galerie Stadler for Urs Lüthi’s Autoportraits, 25 April – 25 May 1985. Vernissage: Thursday 25 April, 18:00–20:00. Galerie Stadler, 51 Rue de Seine, 75006 Paris.

The invitation announces two new bodies of work: Autoportraits de la série des Grands Sentiments and Autoportraits de la série des Croquis Téléphoniques. Beyond the exhibition details, it incorporates a short text by Rodolphe Stadler alongside colour reproductions of two paintings — Autoportrait, de la série des grands sentiments, 1985, acrylique sur toile, 200 × 150 cm, and Autoportrait, de la série des croquis téléphoniques, 1985, acrylique sur toile, 200 × 150 cm — positioning the object somewhere between invitation, exhibition guide, and small publication.

By the mid-1980s, Lüthi had established an international reputation through photography, performance, and conceptual self-portraiture. The works presented here register a shift toward painting without abandoning the central question that had animated his practice since the late 1960s: the self as image, construction, and repeated proposition. Rather than recording identity, these paintings continue its staging through another medium.

Galerie Stadler occupied a singular position within post-war Paris, presenting artists whose practices crossed Conceptual Art, performance, Minimalism, and post-war European experimentation. This invitation belongs to that wider infrastructure of circulation: a printed support produced to announce an exhibition, retained beyond its immediate function.

Examples survive less frequently than standard invitation cards. The larger folded format, extended text, and colour reproductions place it closer to an ephemeral exhibition publication than a conventional private-view announcement.

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