F-111.

Baden-Baden.: Staatliche Kunsthalle., 1966. 8-part folded leporello.. (12.7 x 113 cm), unfolded.. Original folding exhibition leporello catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Feb. 12-27, 1966 (the exhibition, which began at the Jewish Museum in New York the previous summer, also travelled to the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Stedeldijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome). Features a reproduction of Rosenquist’s famed huge painting titled F-111 on one side. Folding out to eight sections, on the reverse is printed an essay (in German) by Rolf-Gunter Dienst. Built to the specific measurements of the front room of the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, the painting F-111 measured ten feet high by eighty-six feet long when complete, and was originally presented at the Castelli Gallery in the spring of 1965. Covering all four walls, the painting invaded the visitors’ peripheral vision, with images of consumer products superimposed over the length of the plane depicted from nose to tail.